imho
I may be mistaken, but I believe the messages referred to are generated by a
virus/worm. If this is the case, the "correct" (again, imho) place to handle
this would be as your are scanning the messages, not at the MTA level
*unless* the mail server is on a slow link or does not have the resources
necessary for the load -or- the load in that particular case justifies
blocking at the MTA level (or firewall, border routers, etc.)
We block(ed) sobig at the MTA level, but we let MailScanner/Sophos handle
most of the other virus/worm generated traffic.
I guess this also depends if you have multiple servers with different
functions as well.
I am sure there are many possibilites that are "correct" in any given
situation. How do most of you decide?
Youn Gonzales
System Administrator
Comptia A+, Network+, INET+,
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Bailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 3:40 PM
Subject: RE: [Razor-users] Help! I'm getting over 20MB of Spam a day!
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> Bah Jeff. Think *then* post. You said mailscanner, not spamassassin.
> Sorry. =)
>
> On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 14:50, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Um, the concept is correct - you'll be better off if you can block at
> > the
> > MTA level - but the implementation recommended doesn't do that.
> > MailScanner
> > only touches messages *after* they've been accepted by the MTA. A
> > milter-based tool, such as MimeDefang, will hook into the MTA to allow
> > rejection of the message before it's accepted in many cases, and
> > before it's
> > written to disk in most cases. I think MailScanner is great - I use it
> > -
> > but it doesn't work at the MTA level.
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