aaron
> Anyway, it doesnt appear SME with the contribs can provide what I'm looking for....
I have a sme 6.0 server & gateway with a 100 or so email users & eight domains, also acting as a file & print server for 12 LAN users.
I have RBL rejection enabled, I have pattern matching virus rejection enabled, I have the other tweaks mentioned in the how to enabled eg bad helo/ehlo.
The Mailblocking contrib rejects (at smtp level) all invalid addressed emails
The server (for these various reasons) rejects close to 1000 mesages per day at smtp level.
I also have spam filtering and clam virus scanning enabled to catch those that get past smtp rejection. Doublebounce deletion keeps the admin mailbox clean.
There's only a dozen or so html viruses getting caught per day, and perhaps 20 or 30 spam messages getting moved to the junkmail folders.
I do insist on all published email addresses on web sites being encoded, to thwart spam robots etc.
The resultant email load on the server is therefore not great.
I agree why waste all those processor cycles on antivirus scanning and spam filtering, both of which are quite intensive (esp spam filtering).
Unless you are receiving tens or hundreds of thousands of messages per day, I think you would be better off using the one server as gateway & mail server, that way you can utilise the mailblocking & other contribs effectively.