Hi all
Any help would be deeply appreciated.
My scenario -
I have to install Scalix Enterprise Edition 11 on 5 different geographically located servers.
All servers directly need to send outgoing mail.
Incoming mail is received through the MX server and routed to the appropriate server.
In case primary MX is down, secondary MX (at a remote site) takes over.
This is a migration from Postfix/Amavisd-new/ClamAV/MySQL virtual domains setup. The previous setup has been quite secure, robust and relatively trouble free.
Since we need advanced groupware and MAPI connectivity, we are migrating to Scalix.
I NEED to maintain Postfix as the MTA for two major reasons -
We have sufficient experience with Postfix and can monitor/audit a lot of features. Specifically need -
always_bcc (can be done by Scalix - I know)
sender_bcc_maps (how to achieve with Scalix)
recipient_bcc_maps (How to achieve with Scalix)
SpamAssassin with Amavisd
Moreover - we are not very comfortable with Sendmail configuration. We have customised tools like awstats for our sites and we understand Postfix fairly well.
We have successfully installed Scalix over Postfix as mentioned at a few places in the forum.
Currently Postfix receives all mail from outside and delivers to Scalix running at port 10027.
We need to maintain the Postfix virtual table to ensure that mail address to user@mydomain.com reaches user@location.mydomain.com
Scalix has beem configured with both domains - location.mydomain.com and mydomain.com
We are newbies to Scalix but can run Postfix.
I would presume a better way would be run Scalix on port 25 and let Postfix run only on the localhost interface to forward mails that need to be sent outside Scalix. Pls correct me if I am wrong. I would love to do this. In this scenario, Clam can be integrated to check viruses, but what about SpamAssassin?
Since I am NOT going to use sendmail, the amavisd milter is out of the question. If I run SpamAssassin with Postfix on localhost, it does not help at all, as Scalix mailboxes would already have received spam by then.
Pls do correct me if I have not clearly understood Scalix mode of operation or if I am wrong.
Looking forward to an early reply to this post,
rgds
vbg