A lot of times, spammers send mail directly to mail.domain.com,
pop3.domain.com, smtp.domain.com, etc completely ignoring mx records.  A
decent way I've found around it, is to put your users on another server
(separate from imail) for sending mail, using postfix and SASL, and perhaps
a mysql database.  The same mysql database can be used for cyrus sasl
authentication and imail authentication.

Then, simply block port 25 on your IMail machine to everything except the
relay you are using for spam filtering.

Richard

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Steve Cobb
Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 10:32 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [IMGate] SPAM "bypassing" IMGATE

I still have SPAM going directly to my IMAIL machine.  I have both
listed in the DNS record for the domain as MX records.  Should I remove
the Imail record?  Or maybe they are sending directly to the IP?  What
is the fix for that?  Put some type of port blocker on the Imail?  Any
help would be greatly appreciated.
 
Thanks,
 
Steve Cobb, A+, MCSE
Computer Geeks
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