Re: mail proxy?

[stan <stanb@panix.com>]

On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 08:26:32PM +0100, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote:
> "Bob McIlvaine" <suemac@empire.net> writes:
> 
> > The idea is to have the proxy server get the mail from the isp 
> > or multiple isps, scan for viruses and then be available to 
> > email clients behind the firewall.
> 
> a combination of fetchmail and your choice of antivirus (clamav is
> quite good), spam filtering (spamassassin) and pop3/imap daemon will
> do what you describe. The ports system offers a number of useful
> packages which should be rather straightforward to set up.
> 
procmail deserves a mention here also.

Basicly looks somthing like this (at least one way to do it).

Remote mail machines -< fetchmail -< procmail -< clamav -< spmaassain -<
procmail > various mail foldrs to be read with teh MUA of your choice.

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