Trouble....yes. The idea is to put the scanner on an external machine.
That's the easy part. You just set you MX to point to the scanner, and the
scanner forwards smtp traffic to the IMAIL server. If the scanner fails
the next item in the MX is your Imail server so mail does not get bounced if
the scanner server fails. To take it one step further, Len makes a cute
little progy that can totally hide all of you servers from would-be
spammers...called IMGATE. If you don't know who Len is, you will soon. The
point: without it your scanner will scan spam. Very bad.
Hard part: I can't figure out a good way to get mail locally generated by
IMAIL that is sent to another IMAIL address on the same server to get
scanned. Sure, you can point the client to the scanner instead of IMAIL,
but that is risky because then if the scanner croaks you do not have an smtp
at all for your local clients. So I am still trying to figure out how to do
this and still keep the mail scanner external.
Dave
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Has anyone had any trouble tieing in an external virus checking program into
imail?
Thank you,
Scott Heath
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