[72298] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Proxy scanning for spam
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher J. Wolff)
Tue Jul 6 02:08:15 2004
From: "Christopher J. Wolff" <chris@bblabs.com>
To: "'Christopher L. Morrow'" <christopher.morrow@mci.com>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2004 23:07:35 -0700
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0407060600010.12790@sharpie.argfrp.us.uu.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
These are both interesting options. Thank you.
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of
Christopher L. Morrow
Sent: Monday, July 05, 2004 11:02 PM
To: Christopher J. Wolff
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Subject: RE: Proxy scanning for spam
On Mon, 5 Jul 2004, Christopher J. Wolff wrote:
> Christopher,
>
> I meant option #1.
a quickie google shows:
http://assp.sourceforge.net/
which looks promising... additionally:
http://www.ironport.com/
Though, why not just use brightmail/messagelabs if it's to MX's you can
control? Offer this as a 'service' to your customers for $X/seat/month?
> On Mon, 5 Jul 2004, Christopher J. Wolff wrote:
>
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > If I have a network segment connected to a BGP peer, is there a way that
I
> > can hang a box of some kind off of that segment that will sniff out and
> > block malicious/spam email before it hits the customers?
>
> Do you mean a host that can have all tcp/25 routed to it, transparently
> pick-up/scan/re-deliver emails for your customers? or did you mean
> something you could add to your customer relay boxes? (or your MX hosts
> that customers use) Or thirdly, something to protect the internet from
> your users?
>
