RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Passing SPAM that should be bounced

[R. Scott Perry]

Essentially all I am doing is acting as a gateway for another domain.
This way they can utilize the virus scanning and spam detection we have
in place.

Ah, I see now. I had thought that you were acting as a backup mailserver (in case they were down), rather than a gateway (to scan all their E-mail).

What I am trying to implement is called "Acting as a gateway for domains
on other servers" in the manual.  Now from the manual and what you
indicated I need to setup per domain configuration for this domain to
get around the describe behavior (Declude would treat the mail as
outgoing).

That is correct.

So if you are a gateway for the example.com domain, then you could set up a file \IMail\Declude\example.com\$default$.JunkMail that would be used for E-mail to @example.com (instead of the outgoing actions from the global.cfg file being used).

Now the manual says this under the Acting as a gateway for domains on
other servers heading - "The only catch as far as Declude JunkMail is
concerned is that IMail will treat the E-mail to the gateway domain as
outgoing mail, since it is not stored on the IMail server. Therefore, by
default, the outgoing actions in the \IMail\Declude\global.cfg file will
be used. To get around this, you can set up per-domain configuration
files for the gateway domains."  However, when looking at the per domain
configuration it does not say anything about copying in the global
config where the outgoing tests are specified.  Can you explain this in
a little more depth to me?

It's easier to understand if you realize that the global.cfg file serves two purposes: [1] It handles server-wide settings (such as the activation code, X- headers, etc.), and [2] It has the actions that are used for outgoing E-mail (which is handled the same way as the \IMail\Declude\$default$.JunkMail and per-user/per-domain configuration files). If there is a per-user or per-domain configuration file for a user, then Declude JunkMail will use it. Otherwise, Declude JunkMail will use the \Imail\Declude\global.cfg file (if the recipient is not on the local server - outgoing mail), or the \IMail\Declude\$default$.JunkMail file (if the recipient is on the local server - incoming mail).

In your case, you can copy the \IMail\Declude\$default$.JunkMail file to \IMail\Declude\example.com\$default$.JunkMail (assuming the domain that you are acting as a gateway for is "example.com"). If you want, you can change any settings in that file, which will be applied only on mail to the example.com domain.

Also, since you mentioned that Declude will only scan the email once.
The behavior I am seeing now is that the message intended for the remote
domain is being scanned inbound.  Now if I enabled outgoing scanning -
would it not process that mail again because it was already scanned
inbound?

It will still only be processed once.

When the E-mail arrives, Declude JunkMail will see that it is outgoing E-mail, and either use the actions in the \IMail\Declude\global.cfg file or the per-domain settings (the \IMail\Declude\example.com\$default$.JunkMail file). It will not be scanned as incoming E-mail (even though it is technically "incoming", as in it is received by the IMail server, it is not destined to a local user, so it will be scanned as an outgoing E-mail rather than an incoming E-mail).

Would it use the information it already gathered from the first scan?

It will only get scanned once. Here's an overview of what happens:

[1] The remote mailserver connects to IMail, and gives the E-mail to IMail.
[2] IMail starts Declude, which scans the E-mail
[3] Declude hands the E-mail back to IMail, which delivers it (either to a local user, or via SMTP to a remote recipient).

So whether the E-mail is to/from a local user, to/from a remote user, and/or backup/gateway E-mail, it will just get scanned once. The only way it would get scanned more than once is if Step 1 occurred more than once, which shouldn't happen (that could happen if you forward your mail to AOL, and then have the AOL account set to forward it back to you, for example).
-Scott

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