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Configuring Mailscanner Mailwatch and Postfix for FreeBSD The Install guide is here I have split the install guide and the configuration guide as they are pretty involved and might cause confusion if they where put together. I will start off with the easier stuff like clamav and then move on to spamassassin and postfix and then finally to mailscanner and mailwatch. if you have not already read the Install Guide Which might be helpful to newcomers here is a summery of what has been installed. Apache and php - this is for the Mailwatch web frontend. Mysql - This is where mailscanner will log info and where your black and white lists will live. Mailwatch - Mailwatch is the web front end to help monitor and manage Mailscanner. Spamassassin - This is the system that checks the mail content looking for spam. Clamav - the Antivirus scanner that Mailscaner will use Mailscanner - The server that uses all of the above to keep your mail clean and spam free. Ok now that that is over: Confi...

Installing postfix, mailscanner and mailwatch on FreeBSD I have setup a number of servers using mailscanner and postfix to do antispam and antivirus checking. This particular example will show you how to set the server up as a mail gateway. i.e. all inbound and outbound mail will go via this server. You can also use the server as a pop3/imap4 server and doing so, does make life a little easier as you don't have to worry about the transport and relay_hosts files. At a later stage I will show that info too..... when I get a chance. This my seem strange but as there is quite a bit involved in installing and configuring I am splitting this into two How-To's this one, The install How-To and the configuration How-To First off its probably best to start on a new install of FreeBSD. Once you have done the initial portsnap fetch and portsnap extract Right here we go. Two things you might want to do is force your NIC to 100MB full duplex and install lsof Type in ifconfig and check if the...