> -----Original Message----- > From: Bill Maidment [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 10:21 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [Mimedefang] Mail Bypassing Mimedefang > > > but unfortunately the powers-that-be insist on allowing > people to access other external mail servers via socks. > The result is that we get all sorts of undesireable email > completely bypassing the mail server.
You've gotten some pretty good advice so far, but one thing I think should be asked is why does your company insist on using external pop/imap services? Are they company mailboxes? My solution to that would be to figure out why they don't trust your server and fix that. Barring that, the fetchmail suggestion is probably the only one that could work. Is your company allowing your users to check their personal e-mail on company time? While that may be intended to be a nice benefit, it doesn't seem to be working out that way. fetchmail is probably not a good solution here, as you would need the usernames and passwords for everyone's personal e-mail accounts. In this case, I would insist that they use a different e-mail client so it's clear what is company e-mail, that you are responsible to clean. The users that wish to check their personal e-mail should be made to understand that they are responsible to do their own anti-spam measures. Remember that you can't solve what is essentially a people problem with technology. _______________________________________________ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.canit.ca MIMEDefang mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
