I
am about to go down this route and would like some clarification.
Does
the "Outer" IMS need both SMTP Receiver and Delivery while the "Inner"
IMS needs Receiver, Delivery and POP3 services?
- Yes.
-
- The IMS help files say the
following:
- SMTP Gateway Host
- You can specify the host name (or the IP address) of an SMTP server to
which all non-local mail will be sent. This may be useful if for instance
you are using IMS within a company which stipulates that all outside mail
must go through a company-wide mail gateway. Default: no gateway.
This confuses me as it appears to apply only to outgoing mail, not
incoming. But Randy is suggesting that it can also be used for incoming
mail.
No, I didn't say that (or at least I didn't
intend to).
So you add the Inner IMS
server address to the SMTP Gateway host of the Outer IMS server. This
will forward all incoming mail from Outer to Inner.
Correct.
But what if you want pass outgoing mail through the same filters; i.e
through Outer IMS ? How do you do configure the Client, Outer and Inner to do
this?
You
can't do that. I run a degraded set of Trash Finder filters in the inner
system to catch obvious problems on outbound mail. But I don't try to do
anti-virus filtering or the like - most virii directly do their own mailing
anyway. And a full set of filters would quarantine too much outbound mail
(it's much less likely to be bad, as we're a business, not an
ISP).
Purely internal mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED] never gets
filtered. Yes??
Well, it certainly goes through the plugins on the internal server.
I use SCSMFilter and Trash Finder on both servers; TF has a different set of parameters on
each.
I am using Mike's SMTPRCV. should this be
used on both Inner and Outer or what?
I
only use it on the Outer, but there isn't any reason that it couldn't be used
on the Inner. The Inner was my original mail server, and there wasn't any
reason to change it (since it no longer accepts mail from the
wild).
SMTPRCV has an
option on the General tab for Allow Relaying. Should this option be
selected instead of or as well as the SMTP gateway host on the IMS control
panel? If so on which Inner or Outer?
No.
Sorry if this is
confused; but so am I!
Hope
this helps.
David
