On Wed, 6 Apr 2005, Tracy wrote: > At 06:03 4/6/2005, Brett wrote: > > Mail for MYCOMPANY.COM is handled by XMail at MYDOMAIN.COM > > All mail (that gets thru the filters) for MYCOMPANY.COM is > > handed to an (GACK!) Exchange 2000 server. > > > > I do this thru a Custom Domain. > > > > First anything getting through the Spam Lists, DNS, etc. and received > > is Virus checked. I log all virus email. > > > > Second all non-infected email is matched against employees addresses > > that changed over three years ago - when spam got so bad we changed > > our addressing method. I also throw in employees as they leave (after > > a suitable delay - we are very sales oriented). I log all not-wanted > > email. > > > > Next I allow the Exchange users to reject mail based on addresses or > > domains through our Intranet Website. To cover most users, this data > > is pulled from a MySQL database of XMail for the last week of email > > that they received. I log both kill-by-address and kill-by-domain. > > > > I even setup an account at MYDOMAIN.COM for them to forward spam to, > > so they have control over what email they receive. This currently > > populates the kill-by-address datafiles. I log all addresses > > forwarded to 'spam'. > > Question: You mention several checks in here (virus checks, blacklist > checks, user checks, etc)... How many of these checks result in bounce > notices being sent (as opposed to rejections during the protocol session > with an appropriate 5xx error message)?
I think XMail does/will do a 5XX message on the Spam Lists - tho I did not enable any of the lines in the server.tab. > Because in today's forgery-rich environment, bounces are a *bad* thing - > and will tend to get the mail server delivering them blacklisted in many > places... Totally AGREE. All filters are: out the back - thru the fan - into a large bucket where ones and zeros can annilihate themselves quietly. Now that I understand the InfoData line, I can reject my bad/old address filter before I even have to take the rest of the email! Since this all feeds into an Exchange 2000 server (which is 'stunningly stupid' and was made even 'more stupid' when we tried to use GFI on it never mind the huge COST of the GFI software that - as it looks now - is in a bad ROI ratio compared to XMail 8-) about all it did was send bounces and store BadMail. And I am forced to use Microsoft internally both because of vendor application software and internal 'policy'. About the only thing I CAN NOT do is run RDNS as most of our customers and some of our vendors don't have 'real' IT staffs and are lost when it comes to properly handling an email server. But I think I am preaching to the choir... Brett - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
