MailScanner/ f-prot not catching all viruses

[Simon Dick]

On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 13:48, Raymond Dijkxhoorn wrote:
> 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.

As we use the server for other mail related things too that's not
possible, however this has kickstarted me into adding an acl rule to
only allow email for certain domains in from the scanner server, thanks
;)

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Simon Dick                      simon at advantage-interactive.com