From: John Stubbings on

On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:38:33 -0600, technomaNge wrote:

> John Stubbings wrote:
>
> > What mail server are you using? I seem to remember SpamAssassin can do
>> this. Although I've only ever run it on Linux.
>
>
> My best recollection of the conversation with the outsider we hired to
> do IT that is beyond my meager capabilities is:
>
> Fedora core OS, sendmail, and Scalix for Outlook.
>
> I recently had him set mail so that it does not send bounce messages to
> invalid addresses. Our email addresses are apparently on the latest
> edition "10 million addresses you can use in your spam reply-to field".
>
> I've gotten tired of deleting all the bounces from postmasters too
> clueless to kill misaddressed mail.
>
> All misaddresses mail goes into the bitbucket, with no response.
> If other postmasters would do this, net traffic would drop a lot.
>
> I'll look into the filtering you mentioned, but I prefer
> something I can manage without help.
>
>
> technomaNge

I don't know how many users you have, but have you considered using a
hosted Exchange service. Loathed as I am to say it, but for small companies
it can be a relatively low cost, relatively hassle free option, with the
benefit of being an easily budgetable fixed monthly cost.

From: Ya haa on
technomaNge said the following on 2008-11-22 01:15:
> I've currently got my eye on ClarkConnect Community edition.
>
> My biggest problem is I need a GUI if the program is complicated.
> I can handle a command line if it is simple. I used Freesco
> at home for years, but like you said, that is not much of a test.
>
> All I want to do is block Albania, China, France, etc. before they
> hit our mail server. I don't need QOS, FTP, www server, etc. (yet).

Try this
http://www.freebsd.org

The handbook
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html

Download
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/7.0/7.0-RELEASE-i386-bootonly.iso