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FreeBSD, Postfix, Mailscanner and Mailwatch Installation

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...