Thomas,

If I understand what you're saying, you want to prevent spammers from 
circumventing your filtering server, correct?

What's happening is spam is still getting by the filter because they connect 
directly to your mail server and not to the filter?

Unfortunately, if you allow some access to SMTP on the mail server, then it 
will always be open for the internet to get around your filter - regardless of 
your MX records.  If you have EXPN and/or VRFY turned on then spammers can 
easily interrogate your Courier mail system - which negates the whole reason 
for having a filtered server.

It would be best if you configure a firewall in front of your mail server to 
allow incoming pop/imap traffic and deny traffic for incoming SMTP.  Route all 
mail through your filter, but turn off the filter for those domains that don't 
want filtering.  Your filter should allow that - if not, you don't have much of 
a choice.  You will probably need to move those domains to another machine.

D


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Quoting Sam Varshavchik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

| Thomas von Hassel writes:
| 
| > Ok, we have this setup now
| > 
| > Internet ---> Filtering server (Running 
| > postfix/spamassasin/uvscan/anomy) ---> Courier mailserver
| > 
| > Is there a way to setup the courier server so it only accepts mail 
| > coming from the filtering server, also this must be done on a domain 
| > level, not all domains have their mail filtered.
| 
| You can control where mail goes for a given domain by setting up your DNS MX
| 
| records correctly.
| 
| 




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