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Hello

We currently have an Exchange 2003 server and a very crappy Windows Mail relay server. We want to setup a Linux server as a mail gateway to filter incoming mail for spam etc...Need some ideas on prefered linux OS and MTA.

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Daniel
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For Linux distribution: the one you already know better. all of the big names are good, with their positiva and negative sides, but for email almost all from RedHat, CentOS, Slackware (mypreferred), Debian, SuSE, Etc.

for Email: Postfix is easy to setup and has all.
I use QMail myself and it's the best I know with the only downside it's not as easy to setup as postfix.

do not try sendmail if you did not know it from before.

there are a lot of projects to filter virus/spam for both projects. I use qmail-scan for qmail, with f-prot AND clamav at the same time, and for spam, Spamassasin with rules-du-jour.

but your mileage may vary. first choose from one of these MTAs (Mail Transfer Agent) and then set it up for email relaying, and finally add filtering capabilities.
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When you have decided the MTA, the second decision what tool u need to interfacece the MTA with antispam and antivirus:
most popular chioce are amavis or mimedefang, both support  many MTAs (postfix,dual-sendmail,Exim v4,sendmail/milter) or work with any MTA as a SMTP relay, and the integration with spamassassin and antivirus is easy.
Usually I use debian+sendmail relay + milter +  amavis-new +spamassassin + ClamV + bitdefender

amavis-new
   http://www.ijs.si/software/amavisd/
mimedefang
  http://www.mimedefang.org/

Usefull information to start:
http://www.amavis.org/howto/

Gas

just to add to Redimido, for postfix you can use amavisd-new to tie in clamav and spamassassin.  this is my setup for my two mail servers at work and my personal one at home.  if you go to www.postfix.org you can find a lot of howtos about getting it working.

On another note, you should think about monitoring that gateway to.  I've found mailgraph and queuegraph to be good monitoring tools (albeit more for performance monitoring than proactive problem monitoring though)
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I just setup this using Ubuntu with the exim heavy package, clamav, and spamassasin.  I was able to do it all straight from packages.  I would go with Ubuntu dapper-drake, it will be supported long term, but it will still be changing quite a bit for a few more weeks.

Exim is also very easy to setup for callouts, to verify that the users exists on the exchange server prior to accepting the mail.