All, Thanks for your input!
I have temporarily disabled Interscan whilst I evaluate the performance of Imail's antispam offerings. Working fine now. Regarding Interscan & open relays - yes, I agree. I have an external firewall with an SMTP proxy which is acting as our anti-relay mechanism. I have also configured Imail to only relay for trusted IP addresses - the combo of the fw & interscan & Imail has worked well in the past. Because I strip all hostile attachments at the fw, Interscan rarely gets anything worth scanning. Found maybe 9 virii in the last 70,000 messages received, so I can risk disabling it for while. On other topics - I found the fiveten RBL to be a little too rabid in quarrantining spam - anyone wish to share their list of usable RBL servers? By usable I mean not bouncing everything from yahoo, or our customers!!! Thanks, AJ ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: "John Tolmachoff \(Lists\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 18:07:03 -0700 >> >In other words, 86 InterScan and get a better and cheaper anti-virus and >> >spam checking program. Gee, Declude comes to mind. >> >> Or, they can keep InterScan and add Declude JunkMail, which would meet >> their needs here, and be less expensive. >> >> But in this case, I would still recommend also taking advantage of the >> 30-day evaluation version of Declude Virus, to see what slips through >> InterScan. If nothing gets through InterScan, there's no need to purchase >> Declude Virus as well. But if nasty stuff gets past InterScan (as I'm >> guessing would be the case), 86'ing InterScan (or using it along with >> Declude Virus) might indeed be the best option. > >My warning about InterScan is from personal experience. If not configured >correctly, you can find yourself an open relay. By default installation, >there is a setting that innocent enough, will create a wide open relay if >you have the IP of the mail server in the relay for address list. Very >dangerous. > >John Tolmachoff MCSE CSSA >Engineer/Consultant >eServices For You >www.eservicesforyou.com > > >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/ > -- Andrew Cogger B.E. (Elec) (Hons) Software & Computing Systems Manager Innovonics Ltd 346 Macaulay Road Kensington VIC 3031 AUSTRALIA P: +61 (0)3 8371 7000 F: +61 (0)3 9376 0507 M: 0425 792 004 e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.innovonics.com.au http://www.innovonics.net PGP Key ID: 0xC546109D -- **************************************************************** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you are not the intended recipient you must not use, disclose or distribute this email or any attachment(s). Please notify the sender immediately and then delete this email. All sent and received email from/to Innovonics Ltd is automatically scanned for the presence of computer viruses, security issues and inappropriate content. We have taken precautions to minimise the risk of transmitting viruses, but we advise that you carry out your own virus checking on this email and any attachments. If email you receive has a virus or contains inappropriate content please contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] **************************************************************** 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/
