“The order of things is as follows:
- Decide on a physical hookup and IP addressing scheme.
- Get spamd configured and running.
- Tell OpenBSD to send any TCP 25 traffic to spamd for evaluation
(yes, that is a required step). But we also must tell OpenBSD to
forward email from ‘good’ senders to our real email server. PF
rules (OpenBSD’s version of iptables) take care of that.- Test, test, test…!”
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