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      Metu69salemi
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      And when this is done by firewall you have usually no possibility to have those attachments or what ever is going to get proxied off.
      Like in these little redboxes(what are greatly used also in pfsense environment) those can proxy a smtp trafic, but when it kicks in, no one can get those mails nor attachments.

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        Bai Shen
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        What about those of us who aren't running a mail server and want SpamAssassin for marking our pop3 mail as it comes in?  What would you recommend?

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        • marcellocM
          marcelloc
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          @jimp:

          There is a big difference in configuring a greylisting daemon and configuring a full spam filter package. An actual spam filter package would involve running a full mail server on the firewall, plus all of the spam scanning software, plus coming up with some kind of GUI for it, and a way to manage not only the global spam filter settings but probably per-address options, and updating the spamassassin rules, etc, etc.

          You'd realistically be looking at a several thousand dollars to have someone do that properly.

          (And I still wouldn't want to run that on my firewall… :-)

          I like the idea of 'several thousand dollars'  ;)

          I'm working on it and I agree that firewall is not the best place for a antispam system, but you can put it on another pfSense box/vm and use the same great pfSense GUI/rules to configure it.

          What is done:
          First stage antispam checks:

          • Detect zombies

          • check RBL

          • check SPF

          Second stage antispam check:

          • Subject

          • Valid Recipients

          • Valid Domains

          • Body Content

          • Attachment types

          What is almost done:
          Third stage antispam checks(high cpu usage):

          • Mailscanner

          • SpamAssassin

          • Clamav

          • pyzor

          If any one are willing to contribute with the project, the time has come.

          @submicron:

          Not surprisingly, I agree with jimp on this, such a package would require several thousand dollars at least and probably closer to ten thousand to do anything close to correctly.  Even then, it would require herculean effort to keep up to date and would never be appropriate for anything more than a small network.

          Yes it is difficult but not impossible. Many checks nowadays are based on sourceip or live lists(white, gray,black,etc).
          Spamd just like the two biggest commercial antispam tools use a mundial database for ip reputation and other mail stuff.
          pyzor can check a global server too.
          I`m planning that sa-update will be updated via cron.

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          • marcellocM
            marcelloc
            last edited by

            Mailscanner + clamav + spamassassin with postfix integration is done.

            I'm using freebsd 8.2 packages. Testing for 5 days with no issues.

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            Help a community developer! ;D

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            • JackLJ
              JackL
              last edited by

              marcello,

              Congratulations for you work with this package.

              you prove that we can develop technology in Brazil, not just consume. We have many good developers and people involved with free software!

              [] 's
              Jack

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                Bai Shen
                last edited by

                @marcelloc:

                Mailscanner + clamav + spamassassin with postfix integration is done.

                I'm using freebsd 8.2 packages. Testing for 5 days with no issues.

                How are things working?  Still no problems?

                Have you looked at making a pfsense package to do this automatically?

                Thanks.

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                • marcellocM
                  marcelloc
                  last edited by

                  @Bai:

                  How are things working?  Still no problems?
                  Have you looked at making a pfsense package to do this automatically?

                  Yes, I've it working for months.

                  Just install the package.

                  If you prefer, test it on a virtual machine first.

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                  Help a community developer! ;D

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                    Bai Shen
                    last edited by

                    @marcelloc:

                    @Bai:

                    How are things working?  Still no problems?
                    Have you looked at making a pfsense package to do this automatically?

                    Yes, I've it working for months.

                    Just install the package.

                    If you prefer, test it on a virtual machine first.

                    What's the name of the package?  I looked in the list and didn't see it.

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                    • marcellocM
                      marcelloc
                      last edited by

                      postifx for the smtp daemon has antispam features(spf+rbl+spf+zombie blocker+header checks)
                      maiscanner-dev for the content message scanning(maiscanner + spamassassin + clamav)

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                      Help a community developer! ;D

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                        hopoffacloud
                        last edited by

                        Check out Baruwa.

                        This should be able to run as an add-on-package perhaps.
                        We run it on separate hardware - and love it.  (truth to be told we loaded it on the Barracuda hardware we have)

                        :-)

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                          Bai Shen
                          last edited by

                          @marcelloc:

                          postifx for the smtp daemon has antispam features(spf+rbl+spf+zombie blocker+header checks)
                          maiscanner-dev for the content message scanning(maiscanner + spamassassin + clamav)

                          Will do.

                          Thanks!

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                            Unubtanium
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                            A huge thanks to all the devs that made this possible, i soo wish i was a Millionaire  so that i could donate! anyway it will come! Not a question if but when  ;D

                            Man i love THIS. Just hope i can manage to get this running.

                            ;)

                            Just have to Solve this one:
                            FROM SERVER:
                            550 5.1.1 : Recipient address rejected: User unknown in relay recipient table
                            SMTP -> ERROR: DATA command not accepted from server: 550 5.1.1 : Recipient address rejected: User unknown in relay recipient table

                            And also have to find out how to stop it from becoming a backscatter source!

                            Jupp, i love searching for info, will let u all know how it goes…

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                              Unubtanium
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                              This is going like a warm knife in butter, only thing left now is stop NDR/ be a source for backsckatter.  ;D

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                              • marcellocM
                                marcelloc
                                last edited by

                                @Unubtanium:

                                i soo wish i was a Millionaire  so that i could donate!

                                You don't need to be a Millionaire to donate  ;)

                                @Unubtanium:

                                only thing left now is stop NDR/ be a source for backsckatter.  ;D

                                take a look on this doc.

                                http://www.postfix.org/BACKSCATTER_README.html

                                att,
                                Marcello Coutinho

                                Treinamentos de Elite: http://sys-squad.com

                                Help a community developer! ;D

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                                  Unubtanium
                                  last edited by

                                  @marcelloc:

                                  @Unubtanium:

                                  i soo wish i was a Millionaire  so that i could donate!

                                  You don't need to be a Millionaire to donate  ;)

                                  @Unubtanium:

                                  only thing left now is stop NDR/ be a source for backsckatter.  ;D

                                  take a look on this doc.

                                  http://www.postfix.org/BACKSCATTER_README.html

                                  att,
                                  Marcello Coutinho

                                  Thanks for that link, will have a good read. And also check out the How-To regarding donating to packet devs  ;)

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