On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 12:23:10PM -0500, Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote:
> Matthew Newton wrote:
> >OK, thanks. I still have problems exactly understanding the difference
> >between trusted_networks and internal_networks is, though. My
> >understanding is that trusted_networks is our entire ip address range,
> >all hosts (143.210.0.0/16), and internal_networks is mail servers that
> >we run? There are lots of mail servers, some of which I don't know
> >about, and all machines can potentially send mail by connecting to our
> >servers, so should I set this to 143.210. as well? (still remembering,
> >of course, that SA is not scoring internal messages or those on the way
> >out).
> 
> Correct (trusted vs. internal).
> 
> Since, in your setup, SA only sees external mail, you don't need to 
> worry about adding your other (possibly unknown) mail servers to 
> internal networks.  Same goes for trusted hosts.  The only thing you 
> need to worry about is your IP(s) that incoming external mail passes 
> through.  Add them to trusted & internal networks.

Great! That works, thanks!

Matthew

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