MailScanner/ f-prot not catching all viruses

Raymond Dijkxhoorn raymond at PROLOCATION.NET
Thu Mar 13 13:48:22 GMT 2003


Hi!

> > You have a server out there accepting mail without some sort of
> > protection in front of it? You are relying on MX records only? What
> > about port scans on your network and finding the machine? Would be quite
> > easy to do. If I were you I would think about this setup really quick...
> > :-) Otherwise you might as well get rid of MailScanner in the first
> > place *g*
>
> Long story, I should really check that, but the current exim config is
> "interesting" and not trivial to change like that until I have enough
> time :)

Best is to simply block acceess and only allow your mailserver to drop
mail on it, from the outside world.

Bye,
Raymond.



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