> I use Mercury/32 on Windows when I need an SMTP server under Win32.
> It's a nice stable program which runs pretty well on the MS 
> client OS variants (so you don't need to spring for 2003 
> server) and it's quite configurable.  There are pretty easy 
> dialogs to set up global filtering on particular terms, 
> message attributes, etc.  And it's free-ish (made by the 
> Pegasus mail people, IIRC).

Would you happen to know if Mercury/32 has a "program deliver" mode where
the MTA runs your app and sends the text of the email to it via STDIN or
other means? The current MTA I use does this and it is how emails from the
PICList email server get into the archive at piclist.com. Just writing out
the emails to text files is also perfectly ok. Ahh... I probably don't need
to know that at this point since I DO have a working mail server.


> However, if you have a working mail server (I'm gonna point 
> out again that lots of people use *nix-based mail servers for 
> a reason other than geeky pride), I'm a big fan of using 
> dspam to detect spam *and* viruses.  Its adaptability makes 
> it work well for detecting viral emails as spam - it catches 
> all of the viruses I get.  It woudl work well for you in its 
> SMTP relay mode, where incoming mail would go through DSPam 
> first, then get relayed to the main mail server.  Using the 
> quarantine functionality (you have a web server that can 
> handle CGI, right?) potential spam gets held on the proxy 
> rather than being delivered, so you can set the threshold 
> fairly low and let users decide what they want to get through.
> DSpam is at http://dspam.nuclearelephant.com/ 

Dspam sounds perfect. I'll check that out and thanks for the referral.

> Postfix is at 
> http://www.postfix.org/
> Mercury/32 is at http://www.pmail.com/overviews/ovw_mercwin.htm
> Ubuntu Linux is at http://www.ubuntu.com/ ;) Cygwin is at 
> http://www.cygwin.com/
> 
> I'm quite serious about helping, BTW.

Much appreciated. One thing that I would like to see some day is a *nix
mirror of the piclist.com site (All 3Gb of it) where I could, perhaps, log
in and dick about with things on /someone elses/ internet connection.
Writing a cleaned up *nix version of the archive for example. And I've been
wanting to do some stuff with text to speech using (Festival which is only
available for Linux) for my dictionary project:
http://techref.massmind.org/dict

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