Re: [cobalt-users] Hardware SPAM / Antivirus solution? [SCANNED]

[Adam Richardson <cobalt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Depending on how much that hardware solution is, maybe look at
> installing/rolling your own gateway mail server. We did a Debian on a white
> box using MailScanner and SpamAssassin, total cost was about $300.00, but we
> used a used motherboard. YMMV, but was pretty simple, just some tweaking and
> it's humming now.

Thanks, David.  That ePrism hardware solution was waaaay too 
expensive: $5Kish for the box (!) plus $1Kish a year in definition 
updates.

Looks like I'll be rolling my own server.

So (I'm guessing) it works like this:
I point all MX records to this new box running a virus and spam scanner, right?
After mail gets scanned, can it forward cleaned mail to user accounts 
on any number of servers?  Do I set up these forwards on a user basis 
(time-consuming) or a domain basis? (better)

Any pointers to resources would be helpful.

Many thanks to all who repsonded.

Adam