Potentially an interesting evening project

[Paul Klos]

On Wednesday 08 June 2011 18:41:30 Georg C. F. Greve wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> With Kolab Server 2.3.2 we now have the latest postfix.
> 
> This means we also have postscreen [1] available.
> 
> Naturally, this may not excite you very much per se. But then, the ability to 
> catch 80% and more of all spam before it even enters the system and needs to 
> go through mailman & spamassassin should at least generate *some* interest. ;)
> 
> If you're wondering about the 80%, Ralf Hildebrandt gave some good numbers in 
> a speech [2] earlier this year (page 22 onwards, German mostly, unfortunately) 
> that make this seem a rather conservative estimate.
> 
> So I've been thinking it would make an interesting evening project to look at 
> how to adjust the Kolab postfix templates to make use of postscreen and 
> document that on wiki.kolab.org.
> 
> But realistically speaking I won't find that time for some week(s) to come.
> 
> So if anyone else feels like playing with this, I'd love to hear about 
> results.
> 
> Best regards,
> Georg
> 
> 
> [1] http://www.postfix.org/POSTSCREEN_README.html
> [2] http://www.os-t.de/vortraege/ralfhildebrandt.pdf
> 
> 
This is interesting. But I have a question first. I use fetchmail to pull in my emails for the different user accounts, so I'm not using kolab as a 
webserver per se. Will postscreen be of any use to me under these circumstances?

Cheers,

Paul