How can I integrate Sophos Puremessage in Messaging Server?
I know this can be done by the JSMS connector. What's this? Where can I get this? How to configure this?
Has anyone experience in integrating Sophos PureMessage?
I'm using version 5.2p2
Thanks all
Matthias
Hi,
You are probably best off asking Sophos for detailed help/information on this - you have a support contract with them right? What I did find though is:
http://pminfo.sophos.com/pminfo/docs/PureMessage/5.3/index.html
"Although a version of JSMS is not bundled with the product, PureMessage includes a JSMS connector, which allows PureMessage to work with JSMS. The connector must be installed on a Solaris system. JSMS version 5.2 and version 6 (2005Q1) are supported. JSMS must be installed prior to installing PureMessage. For configuration options, see pmxchannel.conf in the Command-Line Reference."
So you install the JSMS connector (which is a new channel program) that comes with the installer software and then you can direct emails to that channel for scanning/spam filtering etc. I tried this out in the original beta days of the connector a few years back -- seemed to do the job.
FYI: Sophos Puremessage also has a milter interface which I have been trying out with Sun's milter interface in messaging server 6.3. At this time I would hang off for 6.3p1 of messaging server as there are a number of bugs in our milter client which stop the milter interfacing correctly with Puremessage's milter server.
Regards,
Shane.
Hi,
you can integrate PMX with iMS using the JSMS connector provided by sophos (poor), or by customizing channel definitions. Don't forget that the milter process (the daemon that scans email for spam in pmx) is an SMTP server. Play with the daemon keyword and new listeners in the dispatcher.cnf file using the "parameter: channel" option to route mail traffic and you should be fine.
