Setting up anti-spam email server: What server should I run and how can I configure it like this...

[CZroe]

I want to set up an email server that'll "bounce" any message is receives saying that the account doesn't exist when I really do get the message. After explaining this to a teacher, he said he set up MS SQL server to do this. Although it's not necessary, I'd like to be able to set up a list of addresses that it won't bounce (Not sure if SQL can do this). Also, doesn't SQL require that I run it on a "server" version of a MS OS? What other options do I have? I plan on setting it up w/ one of those free subdomains out there...

 

[Nothinman]

SQL? WTF is that teacher smoking?

I don't know about Windows but it would be pretty easy to do what you want on a unix running procmail and/or perl and any MTA that supports .forward files.

 

[CZroe]

It wouldn't be easy for me, but thnx anyway!

 

[Saltin]

MS SQL wont do that at all, nothing like a teacher who pulls answers out of his a$$. We use a mail proxy (mail essentials) that proxies our Exchange 2000 server. It will do what you want, but, as you have guessed, it isnt easy to set up.