> (1)    no SPAM or Anti-Virus checking

How does using a different SMTP server effect your inbound spam filtering?
Cox subscribers are forced to use the cox SMTP so what?
The only way this should effect your declude is that auto-whitelist may not
work.
If you still want to scan on the senders IP, adjust your HOPHIGH
accordingly.

> (2)    5Meg email attachment size limit.

Real bummer. customers have to convert those bitmaps to jpg's from now on.

> Now I have two SMTP servers on the same server Imail ver 8.0 and 
> Declude Junkmail and Virus using the standard ports so not to 
> effect all my other emails and domains and the second SMTP using port 
> 26 so I can send emails to my server from home over the COX cable modem. 
> This allows me to still have SPAM and virus checking for my cable 
> modem customers and over come the COX imposed 5Meg limit.

I'm confused, how does moving the extra HOP from the COX smtp to a second
SMTP inside your building effect your inbound spam checking? Attachment
limitations can be a PITA.
As an administrator I'm surprised you don't have an inbound VPN connection
to your office anyways which would bypass their filters and allow you to
tunnel to your own SMTP. ( that's what we do ). I understand this wouldn't
work for customers... We infact do something similar running secondary SMTP
services on port 125 (we find its easier to teach stupid people to add a
digit in front of the port number rather than changing one).

If your reasoning is for something like auto-whitelist you will also need to
set that secondary SMTP server to "smarthost" via IMAIL (sending ALL
outbound mail via IMAIL and not using MX/DNS to deliver).

Also hopefully you are using SMTPAUTH or have allowed individual Ips into
the MS-SMTP service, open relays on odd ports can also be bad. 



-----Original Message-----
From: William Baumbach [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 12:58 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [Declude.JunkMail] Cox SMTP


If you did not know



Cox the High Speed Internet provider of cable modems. Beginning Wednesday,
June 25 2003 has filter access to all 3rd party outgoing (SMTP) mail
servers.



Sincerely,

William J. Baumbach II  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
9975 Pennsylvania Ave. Manassas, Va. 20110-2028
Ph: 703-367-7900 ext:1708 Fax: 703-691-0946
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