Local Relay patch for MS

[Lindsay Snider]

On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 17:17, Peter Bonivart wrote:
> Lindsay Snider wrote:
> > Julian and fellow Mailscanneriers,
> >   Here is a patch which allows MailScanner to ignore ips acting as
> > relays to your mailscanner server.  For example, if you collect mail on
> > a mx server and then relay it to a mailscanner server, you can specify
> > your mx server as a local relay.  Then, mailscanner will not report the
> > mx server as the source of the message but rather the ip which connected
> > to the mx.
>
> I have a pair of MX servers before my MS box and since SA goes through
> all the received headers it doesn't matter to me when it comes to detect
> spam but I use MailStats (now called Vispan) and it has a cool feature
> that shows the origin of spam by checking the IP address of the sending
> server. In my case that means all my spam seems to come from Sweden. ;-)
>
> Would that be fixed by this patch? If so, I'm interested in a Sendmail
> version.

I'm not familar w/ MailStats but I'd suggest that this probably would.
The syslog:maillog will be correct as would a function run from 'Always
Looked Up Last' in MailScanner.conf.

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> /Peter Bonivart
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