RE: [IMail Forum] Customer wants to use contracted spam and virus from outside vendor

[tim.altena]

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You should not have to change the FQDN of the Virtual server just change the MX record for the domain to point to a new FQDN.  Then MX record and the A record are two separate entities.   Tim     From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Plato, Art Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2005 6:56 AM To: IMail_Forum@list.ipswitch.com Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Customer wants to use contracted spam and virus from outside vendor   They're a bank and the Board of the bank, which of course are technically savvy people, have decided that's how they want it. Thanks for your input. The It Admin for the Bank was hoping for a resolution that wouldn't involve changing the SMTP in all of their clients. When they set it up they pointed SMTP to the FQDN of my server rather than the FQDN of their virtual. If they want true inbound and outbound third party scanning then I reckon he'll just have to make the changes.   Thanks again, Art. -----Original Message----- From: Christopher Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2005 1:15 AM To: IMail_Forum@list.ipswitch.com Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Customer wants to use contracted spam and virus from outside vendor Just a question: Why would they want all their outbound email sent to a 3rd party? Wouldn’t it make more sense to have all their inbound mail going to the other company, so that the mail they actually receive has been checked for spam and viruses? Emails that send out should typically be free of those. I’ve always thought it’s a good idea to scan outbound emails, but it’s not a necessity.   If you wish to send Inbound emails to another party, then I agree with Darrell. Usually you’d change the DNS MX record for that domain to resolve to the IP of the 3rd party’s SMTP service which does the antispam and antivirus. They would then configure their SMTP server to route the mail to the Internet IP of your mail server for that domain once it’s been scanned.   That would work….!   Chris   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Darrell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Sent: Tuesday, 7 June 2005 2:58 PM To: IMail_Forum@list.ipswitch.com Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Customer wants to use contracted spam and virus from outside vendor   Usually what you would do for this scenario is have the customers MX records point to the 3rd party spam filtering service and than have them forward the mail to your server where the actual accounts exist after the spam/virus detection occurs.   Darrell ------------------------------------------- Check out http://www.invariantsystems.com for utilities for Declude And Imail.  IMail Queue Monitoring, Declude Overflow Queue Monitoring, SURBL/URI integration, MRTG Integration, and Log Parsers. ----- Original Message ----- From: Plato, Art To: IMail_Forum@list.ipswitch.com Sent: Monday, June 06, 2005 11:34 AM Subject: [IMail Forum] Customer wants to use contracted spam and virus from outside vendor   I have a customer who wants all of their outbound email to be redirected to an outside SMTP for spam and virus filtering. Their domain is a Virtual on my server with it's own IP on my server. I tried to accomplish this with a rule that states if the sender is @domain.com or sender is . (help stated that period is a wildcard) redirect to contracted server. If they send me an email it comes directly to me without hitting their contracted server. I'm guessing this is because both domains reside on the same server. Is this outbound rule the right way to accomplish redirecting their outbound email to their contracted server, and if not, what is the best way to accomplish this? TIA, Art Plato.