Outbound mail not scanned

Ugo Bellavance ugob at CAMO-ROUTE.COM
Thu Feb 19 21:03:07 GMT 2004


> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : Peter Billson [mailto:pete at ELBNET.COM]
> Envoyé : Thursday, February 19, 2004 3:48 PM
> À : MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Objet : Outbound mail not scanned
> 
> 
> Hello *,
>   I'm hoping someone can help me with an odd problem.
> 
> I have Mailscanner running on a host between the world and my 
> "real" mail
> server. All inbound and outbound mail pass through the 
> mailscanner machine:
> 
> MAIL TO ME   >>>> Mailscanner >>>> ME
> MAIL FROM ME >>>> Mailscanner >>>> THE WORLD
> 
> I have Mailscanner successfully scanning mail that is coming 
> in but I can not
> get mail going out to be scanned. According to the Email headers mail;
>    1) is received by MailscannerHost from my mail server
>    2) is then sent from MailscannerHost to Destination
> 
> According to the headers it seems that the mail is being 
> processed, but
> nothing "bad" gets stripped off - i.e. I can send an EXE file 
> or a virus
> without problems.

Do you have any special rules ?

Ugo

> 
>   As I said above, for inbound mail, EXEs or a virus are 
> stopped as they should
> be.
> 
>   Any suggestions where to look?
> 
>   Thanks!
> 
> Pete Billson
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