>I wish to develop an application that needs to scan messages while they >are on an IMail server set up as a gateway. To be more precise, I wish >to run a filter to block spam, scan for viruses, hadle attachements, >etc. and I wish to implement this with my IMail server acting as a >gateway for other servers on other domains.
This is what IMGate does, on *nix. >However, I am unable to 'catch' the messages as they pass through. Since >both servers are online 24/7 (or should be) mail is instantly relayed to >othercompany.com the second it arrives. With IMGate you can do regex scanning and rejecting on headers and bodies, including attacments. If you want to go further, you could deliver all messages to program alias(es) and content filter on IMGate, do whatever you want, and pipe the output back to postfix for relay on to wherever. I really don't think Imail + Win32 is the best platform for this kind of mail and text processing, and postfix as MTA is exceptionally open and malleable. *nix systems have been more tool-box oriented from the conception, while IMail and Windows are more "here it is finished, use it as is". But if you know nothing about *nix "mindset" ... Len To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
