Scanning outbound emails can be any MTA such as Postfix with Spamassassin, Clamav, or whatever you choose. HTTP activity could probably done via squid. There are several commercial appliances/products that can more or less do what you want but it sounds like you're looking for an OSS. I am not aware of anything free that will tie everything together exactly the way you want out of the box but I imagine there are apps/front ends and what not that could be used to help you get where you're going such as webmin. Squid and Postfix are fairly easy to setup and configure in their own right. As for commercial products, depending on your budget, you could look at a Lokbox http://www.loktechnology.com/ (OpenBSD based). Good luck On Wednesday 23 August 2006 12:06, Randy Clarksean wrote: > Ok ... I had previously asked about firewall hardware and did get some > good feedback. > > Now ... part two. I need some recommendations about Linux based > software for scanning outgoing emails, http activity, etc. ... this > would be behind the firewall and before everything jumps into a switch. > SO ... all traffic would go through this. > > I am envisioning a simple box ... with a stripped down version of linux > running ... where by the log files, etc. could ideally be accessed via a > web browser. > > Anyone tried this or done it before? > > Thanks in advance. > > Randy > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list