First some background:
I sit in an office in city #1. The MIS group sits in an office in city #2. Our corporate email servers are not in my office, but up in the MIS office. I have about 35 users all running Windoze workstations. The users here have a huge spam problem. The MIS group does an "adequate" job of filtering viruses, but only uses simple subject line filtering (I think).
So, what I would like to do is set up a linux box here to be used as an E-mail gateway (NOT SERVER). Ideally it would sit Inside the LAN (behind firewall). If it must, it can be DMZ. All users have POP3 accounts. Anyway, I've done some looking around and found these:
CRM114 Discriminator SPAM filter
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The DSPAM project
(Yes, I got these from a recent /. article)
I like the approach of them. The first one has some MicroShaft plugins available which would be good for my situation since that's what everyone uses here.
I'd like it so MIS up in city #2 doesn't have to do anything or even know about it. They wouldn't do anything if I asked (way too busy, and don't know jack about Linux). It has to be transparent to anyone either in this office of the MIS office.
My questions are thus:
1) Is this possible? Seems like it is. I would just like the gateway to look at emails, handle the "bad" ones in some configurable way, and pass along the "good" ones to the clients (on inbound) or server (on outbound)
2) What, in your opinion, would be the best suited distro for this?
3) Any general configuration recommendations?
4) Any software recommendations?
Any advice, opinions, comments, flames, will be appreciated.
Thanks,
-G-