Business On a Budget

[eyeball]

Hi Everyone,

In my spare time i am taking control of a local business as the network admin. The only problem is they want to be as cheap as they can.

They have an SBS server and OEM xp boxes but everything else i would like to make opensource (And free).

I will be using Clamwin AV, Open Office and Windows Defender.

I am looking for an opensource Antispam solution and if possible i would like one server side and one client side.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thank You

[cluberti]

Spamassassin + Sendmail + MIMEDefang (you could use something other than sendmail as an MTA, I'm just most comfortable with that) will work. Client-side, something like SpamBayes would work.

[eyeball]

Excellent info, thanks Cluberti il check them all out

[cluberti]

Take a look around, see if it will work for you:

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/01...ry_Daemons.html

http://frommars.org/linux/hyderabad_techta...full_volume.pdf

I would recommend Debian Linux or FreeBSD as a platform for sendmail, in that order (apt-get install sendmail spamass-milter mimedefang clamav clamav-freshclam clamav-milter to install everything on debian).

[eyeball]

I must say this looks very impressive and although im not great on linux although i would be very keen to give this a try. What i will do is use Spambayes and if they are unhappy with it i will propose some investigation so i can look into this and see where it leads.

Thanks again for the help