Abstract
SMTP server is used for relaying email messages to deliver to its destinations, and it will filter the unsolicited email that called SPAM. To stop SPAM and email VIRUS at SMTP server before it is delivered to the end user's computer is becoming more and more important to security issue for the email system in most organization. This paper will provide an overview of SMTP server and how SPAM email can affect company's business. Then describe about Postfix MTA software, Amavisd-new content scanner software, and Sophos Anti-Virus software. Following is the step by step instruction to install and configure these software on Solaris 8 operating system, and the instruction will include how to hardening the base operating system with Sun's JASS Toolkit, openssh, and TCP Wrapper.