Internet -> Mailscanner -> Exchange 2000

[Mike Kercher]

I couldn't say for sure...for the most part, I forward to OpenExchange servers.

Mike


> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list
> [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Matthew Bowman
> Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 1:21 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Internet -> Mailscanner -> Exchange 2000
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>
> I think you need esmtp
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> E.g.
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> domain.tld      esmtp:[hostname.domain.tld]
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> In mailertable
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> This is how I set my setup to forward onto exchange servers.
>
> Matthew
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> "Kearney, Rob" <RKearney at AZERTY.COM>
> Sent by: MailScanner mailing list
> <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK> 08/08/2003 02:20 PM Please
> respond to MailScanner mailing list
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>         To:     MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>         cc:
>         Subject:        Re: Internet -> Mailscanner -> Exchange 2000
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> I don't know if this applies to Postfix, but in sendmail, you
> would need to enclose your SMTP server in brackets '[' and
> ']' to bypass DNS lookups. This is just in case your DNS
> server in your DMZ points to your Mailscanner box or
> firewall, so mail doesn't go in a loop.
>
> so for sendmail, you would use in mailertable
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> domain.com      smtp:[hostname.exchange.server]
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> -rob
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Kercher [mailto:mike at CAMAROSS.NET]
> Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 11:03 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Internet -> Mailscanner -> Exchange 2000
>
>
> This is actually a very simple process.
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> Say your TLD is domain.com
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> You make the MX record in DNS point to the IP of your
> sendmail/MailScanner machine.
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> You add an entry to /etc/mail/relay-domains:
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> domain.com
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> Add an entry to /etc/mailertable:
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> domain.com              smtp:hostname.exchange.server
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> Save your file and hash it.
>
> Restart MailScanner and you are done.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list
> [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf > Of Ugo
> Bellavance
> Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 9:40 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Internet -> Mailscanner -> Exchange 2000
>
>
> Hi,
>
>         I searched through the archives, but didn't find
> anythig relevant. I am looking forward to use Mailscanner in
> front of my Exchange 2000 server (by the way, it could be any
> SMTP server).  I read the docs, but in all cases, it talks
> about mailscanner being installed on the machine where the
> actual mailboxes are.  What I want to do is filter out spam
> and viruses (although I have symantec AV for exchange) with
> mailscanner, in the DMZ, and then send the filtered messages
> to my  Exchange 2000 server.  Right now, my Exchange 2000
> server receives mail directly from the internet and I don't
> really like that.  I would, at least, want to have a mail
> relay in my DMZ (so that I wouldn't care too much if it's
> compromised, since there is a firewall between it and my
> LAN), that sends the messages to my internal Exchange server.
>  Of course, since MailScanner can filter spam and viruses, I
> would like to implement that as well.
>
>         How do I do that?  simply putting my exchange 2000
> server as a "relay_host" in postfix?  I tried a few things,
> like playing with the transport file, but the result is that
> it sent the mail to the Exchange server, but without scanning
> for virus and filtering spam.  How do I know it is not
> scanned?  I don't see these messages in my logs:
>
> Aug  7 07:48:20 server MailScanner[4450]: New Batch: Scanning
> 1 messages, 501 byte s Aug  7 07:48:34 server
> MailScanner[4450]: Virus and Content
> Scanning: Starting Aug  7 07:48:34 server MailScanner[4450]:
> Uninfected: Delivered 1 messages
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ugo Bellavance,
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