Re: MesageWall

["Scott Taylor" <scott@dctchambers.com>]

Miguel =?iso-8859-1?Q?Gonz=E1lez=20Casta=F1os?= said:

Hello Miguel,

> dear all,
>
>  I have been told about a tool called MessageWall, which is a SMTP
> proxy. I am wondering if anyone from this lists have worked with it,
> which is the typical setup and if it works fine.

Do you mean http://messagewall.org ?

If so, I don't use it, but it looks simple enough to use and they have
support mailing lists.  The install instructions are pretty clear but
seem like a lot of work, and there aren't a lot of setup or use
instructions that I can see.  Also, it requires that you use specific
tools like firestring, firedns, deamontools, etc.  Sounds like a pain
in the butt now.

I don't agree with their reverse DNS thing: many ISP's out there just
don't keep that up-to-date and there is nothing you can do about it,
but bitch and complain every time it gets removed or reset to the
default.

On another thread:
I use Procmail: http://www.procmail.org/ (part of most Linux distros now)
, Spamassasin: http://www.spamassassin.org/index.html
, and John Hardin's Email Sanitizer (a well developed set of Procmail
Rulez):
http://www.impsec.org/email-tools/procmail-security.html

With these three products working together, and a little user
education, I have kept many networks free of email viruses (including
the luvbug) and sent a lot of spam to /dev/null.

Check out those sites, there is a lot of reading to do and a bit of
setup, but once you get it all together you'll be a much better email
admin for it.

Good luck.

--
Scott
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