Jeroen van Aart <[email protected]> wrote: > [email protected] wrote: >> Hi, >> I'll be asking many questions through out my >> implementation phase of the ASSP, please bare with me >>;-) > > You're gonna wake us all from hybernation. ;-|
LOL, I hope this is a good thing. > >> In my test setup, i have a sepearte box running ASSP and >> created a new domain on my SMTP server (eg >>mydomain.com). > > Sorry to be anal, please try to use >example.com/.net/.org domains for > examples. They're especially created for that, > http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1034.txt mydomain.com in fact >exists. I only mentioned mydomain.com as an example, my real domain used was something else :). > >> The filter setup for this domain (mydomain.com) is >> Internet - > ASSP - > SMTP server -> user ... no >>outbound >> filtering yet. > > Outbound filtering is less important... but not totally >unnecessary. But > if you have configured email submission properly, i.e. >smtp > authentication using encryption on port 587 (and maybe >port 465 for > broken clients) then you should be fine for the most >part. > >> I cretaed the MX record for that domain to point to the >> ASSP box - (mydomin.com MX 10 assp.box.com) and so >> far so good in feltering inbound emails for >>mydomain.com. >> My question is what will be the DNS setup for the PTR >> reverse lookup records , should it point to my SMTP >>server >> or the ASSP server ? > > It should point to the server that sends the email. >Since the receiving > server might check for a reverse dns and refuse delivery >(happens rarely > though). Since assp is a proxy as far as the receiving >end is concerned > the server that sends it is the smtp server. In fact >it's possible you > don't even use assp for outgoing but use the smtp server >directly. Great ! So it should look like this assp.box.com IN A 192.168.1.1 mydomain.com IN MX 10 assp.box.com. smtp.server.com IN A 192.168.1.2 192.168.1.2 IN PTR smtp.server.com. mydomain.com IN A 192.168.1.2 > > The way I have it configured I let outgoing email route >from the smtp > server through assp to enable whitelisting, then it >routes back to the > smtp server which sends it out. I assume it will also do spam/virus blocking of mail sent from local users on mydomain.com. Very interesting !!. Which settings on the webadmin please ? > >> For sending outgoing mail and reading mail via POP, >>users >> of mydomain.com will connect directly to the SMTP >>server, >> does that mean we still have to create DNS (A) records >>to >> point to the SMTP server and only keep the (MX) record >>to >> point to the ASSP box ? > > Yes, unless you want your users to remember an IP >address, which > technically speaking is not a problem at all. I assume >you have an entry > for assp.example.com to resolve it to an IP address. > Yes. Thanks for the great feedback and support... Greetings, ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Assp-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/assp-user
