MailScanenr based relay server

[Peter Bonivart]

Ronnie Regev wrote:
> Back to the topic at hand. I am going to start working on setting up 7.3
> with the latest version of mailscanner.
> using example.com as my example domain,
> In order to have mail routed to the new spam filtering server, I would
> change the A record for mail.example.com to point to the new IP?
> Once mail is filtered, which function, or process would know to transfer the
> mail to the original server? As much detail as possible please.
> As I go along, ill post my results and questions.

The MX record in your DNS should point to the new server when you're
ready to switch since that's the one visible from the internet.

It's /etc/mail/mailertable Jamey is talking about, that's the file that
routes all your domains to the next server (current one). Look through
the text files in that directory (/etc/mail/).

I recommend that you set up your new server completely without changing
the DNS records. You can test it by submitting mail from it, that way
you can make sure that it works when you start flowing traffic through it.

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/Peter Bonivart

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