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Vrob

Member

Registered: 2007-12-07

Posts: 42

Anti-Spam/Virus Mail Gateway on Arch

Hey folks,

since my Ubuntu installation on my little homeserver which lasted for over 2 years crashed, I planned on using Arch on my new setup.

Basically, what I want the server to do is nothing extra ordinary:
* Fetch e-Mails from my webmail accounts, filter for spam and viruses and serve them again via imap

Of course a little file serving will also be poured in, but this is a matter of minutes to set up with Arch.
Anyway, I used to use a combination of Postfix, getmail, Dovecot+sieve, ClamAV, SpamAssassin and
amavisd-new on my old setup and tried to get this running on Arch with the help of the Wiki, tutorials on the net a.s.o.
and failed
The AUR amavisd-new package seems broken with some Perl-Module missing and I simply couldn't
connect to dovecot. Also when checking the headers with mutt locally, Postfix didn't
send the mails through amavis but dropped them directly to the mailboxes.

I do not need to send e-Mails, I simply want them to be retrieved to a single point.

So I'm looking for a Step-By-Step tutorial to set up my mail gate, preferably with the aforementioned
programs, but I'm also open to new approches softwarewise.

Thanks in advance,
Vrob

soloport

Member

Registered: 2005-03-01

Posts: 442

Re: Anti-Spam/Virus Mail Gateway on Arch

http://www.hypexr.org/linux_mail_server.php