Les Mikesell wrote: > On Wed, 2006-08-23 at 04:33, Ralph Angenendt wrote: >> Jaymz Ringler wrote: >>> A simple solution if you have an extra machine.. install qmail on a >>> new box... put it into your DMZ to collect mail. You then set a >>> simple smtproute to forward all mail to your inner mail server's ip. >> qmail is outdated. qmail doesn't check for available users before >> accepting a mail and thus always sends bounces. qmail isn't available >> for centos. qmail hasn't seen any updates since way back when. qmail can >> only be made into a more modern MTA with tons of patches. > > On the other hand a very nice approach to an outside DMZ relay > is to use sendmail with MimeDefang (http://www.mimedefang.org) > to coordinate scanning with clamav, spamassassin, etc. It > has an option to check for valid users via smtp to the delivery > server so you don't have to set up anything extra for this > other than the snippet of perl that controls it all. There is > a moderately active mail list with helpful advice. > i'd rather use postfix in tandem with clamav and spamassassin. sendmail sucks. milter sucks.