Integrating MailScanner, SpamAssasin and Exchange

[Mariano Absatz]

Other thing you can do, if your firewall supports port-forwarding (most 
modern firewalls do) is to just leave the MX record for linux box address 
and, in the event of a failure, instead of adding a rule in the FW to 
allow connections to port 25 of the exchange box, you could add a port-
forwarding rule that redirects packets targeted to port 25 of the linux 
box to the port 25 of the exchange box.

El 22 Oct 2003 a las 11:27, Walter D. Wyndroski escribió:

> You have a good point. I cannot disagree.:) I should be doing the rejects, I
> will have to check as it has been sometime since this has been in place.
> 
> Walt Wyndroski
> 
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Mariano Absatz" <mailscanner at LISTS.COM.AR>
> To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2003 11:18 AM
> Subject: Re: Integrating MailScanner, SpamAssasin and Exchange
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> > This is messy, anyway... at least make sure your firewall "REJECTS"
> > (rather than "DROPS") connections to port 25 of your Exchange server,
> > that would prevent lousy timeouts (SMTP timeouts are reaaaaaaalyyyyyyy
> > loooooooooong, and that is on purpose).
> >
> > El 22 Oct 2003 a las 10:26, Mark Spieth escribió:
> >
> > > This can be done with the Microsoft Scripting Agent. Personally I have
> > > done it in the past, It tends to beat up the box pretty good why the
> > > Scripting agent seems to put more of a load on the box then having the
> > > outlook clients to basically the same thing makes no sense to me, but
> then
> > > again this is a MS$ product. I really would either do it on the client
> or
> > > have MS/SA route the spam to an email address on the exchange server.
> > >
> > > Mark Spieth - Director of Internet Services
> > > Northeast Ohio Digital Inc.
> > > http://www.neod.net
> > > mspieth at neod.net
> > > 330-830-6551
> > >
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