On Friday 26 September 2003 11:11 am, Darrell Cormier wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
The 03.09.23 at 23:55, Vitaly Shishakov wrote:
Just as, probably, some of you, i am tired of getting tons of 150kb messages containg yet-another-worm-for windows. Does anybody have a good advise about how could i use my procmail on my server to filter it out?
Search the list, this has been comented several times this month - two by me self this week.
Carlos, and everyone, Since we are again on this subject, and I know this has been addressed a great deal, but I am still a little fuzzy/confused about the whole email/network security approach. I have been trying to read various articles found on the web but I'll admit I am a bit new to admin activities as well as apprehensive until I have a very thorough understanding of the approach. I am currently just using Mozilla to access my ISPs mail server directly. This, I know is not a very good approach and I intend to change it once I have the process down pat.
My understanding of a good approach follows:
1. Firewall (of course, although I have not gotten there yet)
Definitely... I use shorewall
2. postfix - setup and operational
Good but you can receive mail without it.
3. antivirus software (I've heard recommended: F-prot, antivir, and clam antivirus. Comments on these appreciated)
I personally don't think it's necessary and don't ever filter for virii.
4. SpamAssassin
Very good. And you'll probably need procmail in order to call SA.
5. Amavis
Isn't this a virus checker? You'll probably also want fetechmail to get incoming mail from your ISP.
And then make them all work together. Is this a good/safe approach? Any information on this will be greatly appreciated. I am also struggling through the man pages of some of these. Are there any good references available on the web for getting all this configured? I know that Togan has a great guide for firewall2 which I am currently reading, but how about the rest of these and making it all work together?
TIA, Darrell Cormier
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