Integrating MailScanner, SpamAssasin and Exchange

[Walter D. Wyndroski]

I am doing one to one NAT and cannot port forward.

Walt Wyndroski

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mariano Absatz" <mailscanner at LISTS.COM.AR>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2003 1:28 PM
Subject: Re: Integrating MailScanner, SpamAssasin and Exchange


> 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
> >
> >
> > ----- 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
> >
> >
> > > 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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