Protecting your email server with Alpine
Introduction
This document will outline how you can setup a spam/virus gateway with Alpine Linux. I want to say first that this is not the only way of setting up such a system. There are many ways of achieving this goal but this is the way I take. I do not issue any guarantee that this will work for you!
First thing I want to mention is, it is probably not a good way to setup Postfix on a disk less system (having the mailer spool in memory). If you would ever suffer from power failure you would loose the contents of your Postfix spool. That said, in our orgranisation we are using a UPS device to supply our servers with backup power, so the chanses that our server would shutdown because of powerfailure is minimal (and we are prepared to take this risk).
Setting up Postfix
For this particular setup we are going to use the following:
- Mailer daemon: Postfix
- Virus scanner: Clamav
- SMTP filter: Clamsmtp
- Greylisting server: Gross
- Extra definitions: SaneSecurity & MSRBL
- Exchange 2003 users/groups in relay_recipient_maps
- Alpine Linux 1.7.19 (some packages are not available before this version)