>We decided that we would like to offload the spam and virus filtering to
>a separate gateway Imail server. As far as we can tell, this is
>possible. In this configuration, we figured if a customer tries to send
>mail out of our main mail server, we'll have Imail gateway the message
>out to the Spam/virus box and then out to the Internet (and vice versa
>for incoming mail).
Yes, that should work fine (with the MX record(s) pointing to the 'gateway'
server).
>We have come across a situation that we can't seem to easily solve using
>this configuration. If a local user sends email to another local user,
>the mail would never go out through the spam/virus box (it would all
>stay within the main Imail server) and it would be possible for our
>users to infect each other with a virus. Is there an easy way around
>this?
You can change the A record for current IMail server to point to the
gateway server. That way, when a user goes to send their mail, it will go
to the gateway server. For example, if you have "smtp.example.com" as the
host to use for sending SMTP (the one that users put in their mail client),
you would switch the A record to point to the gateway server.
-Scott
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