gascione wrote: > > > W B Hacker wrote: > >>gascione wrote: >> >>*snip* >> >> >>>mail cluster. If I could find a way to deliver it in a way other than >>>SMTP I >>>guess that would solve the problem as well. >> >>Given the hardware and a manualroute router, Exim can deliver it over 60 >>ma >>bipolar TTY with Baudot code if you really need it to do so. >> >>or - if all this is 'local', you can file-write directly into some other >>MTA's >>queue (a la DaVinci on Novell MHS). >> >>But smtp and lmtp are easier to get a far-end to work with.. >> >>;-). >> >> >>>I also have the ability to hook into a program that could just remove the >>>relay headers from the email once it hits the primary server but that >>>would >>>require writing a program to execute on a Windows system which I cannot >>>do. >>> >>>Sounds like I am heading down the consultant path. >>> >>> >> >>- given that there are few truly 'new' challenges in the smtp-delivery >>world, >> >>- given that Exim does not already have a simple setting that more of us >>are >>long-since using to do what you believe you need to do, >> >>I am more inclined to think you might want to sleep on it and then look >>again at >>the 'big picture' for the whole collection - and see if there is not a >>simpler >>way to arrive at the result you need. >> >>Bill >> >> >> >> >>-- >>## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users >>## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ >>## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/ >> >> > > > I'm not sure what there is to sleep on. The problem is that this is way over > my head. I don't mind learning and I have learned quite a bit but in this > case I am under the gun. There is no time to learn. I need help doing it. > > And I forgot to mention, I really appreciate the thought process and time > you are taking.
Magnus has probably put more 'thought' into it. I am just way *older*, have done things in more different ways, and - for sure - made more *mistakes* than most others. Wish I could say I had learned from all of them. ;-) Seriously - you are trying to do a thing I wouldn't do at all. On our 'under-the radar' MX here (Swiss or even third-world .tlds) we get near-zero spam/malcode. On really old and high-visibility domain.tld's (.com/.org/.net), some days as much as 95% of arrivals are garbage - mostly dictionery attacks and other WinZombies. Waves and waves of 'em. Still yet, even on those on peak days, we call SpamAssassin for less than 15% of all offered traffic. 12-month average is 11%, most recent Exim acl set is dropping that to around 5%. (Worst offenders are going into IP blocklists). The rest is shot down with Exim's DNS and smtp protocol enforcement, i.e failure of forward/reverse DNS lookup, failed recipient verification, found in dynamic-IP or other RBL, HELO as us, forged HELO as yahhoo, et al, found in our own 'brownlists' built from repeat-offender scoring in SQL DB, etc. By scoring only when several violations have been committed, or a tell-tale 'pattern', very few false-positives arise, and can be easily 'whitelisted' if need be. So - Exim is capable of onpassing such 'clean' traffic that you would not need any further filtering. Shuttign down spamd would hardly make a bump in our user's 'Inbox', only in their quarantine folders. Nor do you necessasrily even those other mx for distribution..... ...unless, for example, you 'need' Exchange for its non-mail group-working features. Bill > > Rock and a hard spot right? > -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
