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SpamAssassin: A practical guide to integration and configuration

You're reading from  SpamAssassin: A practical guide to integration and configuration

Product type Book
Published in Sep 2004
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781904811121
Pages 240 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages

Table of Contents (24) Chapters

SpamAssassin
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
1. Introduction
1. Introducing Spam 2. Spam and Anti-Spam Techniques 3. Open Relays 4. Protecting Email Addresses 5. Detecting Spam 6. Installing SpamAssassin 7. Configuration Files 8. Using SpamAssassin 9. Bayesian Filtering 10. Look and Feel 11. Network Tests 12. Rules 13. Improving Filtering 14. Performance 15. Housekeeping and Reporting 16. Building an Anti-Spam Gateway 17. Email Clients 18. Choosing Other Spam Tools Glossary

Going Live


Switching to the email gateway will involve one of three methods:

  • If a corporate firewall is in use, then change the firewall configuration to forward SMTP traffic (port 25) to the email gateway .Ensure that traffic for any external services such as Razor or Pyzor is directed to the email gateway. Firewall details for external services are given in Chapter 13.

  • Give the email gateway the IP address of the old email server. To do this, give the original email server a new IP address and give the new email gateway the IP address of the original email server. Alter the email gateway configuration to use the new IP address.

  • Alter the DNS MX records for the domain. Make the current email server the new backup MX, and the new gateway the primary MX. It will take time for the change to propagate. This makes the service switchover slow and gradual, so any problems will not affect all email traffic. If there are problems with the new service, the network cable can be disconnected and all...

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