Spam bypassing gateway server

[Michele Neylon :: Blacknight Solutions]

Could you post the headers?

Mr. Michele Neylon
Blacknight Internet Solutions Ltd
http://www.blacknightsolutions.ie/
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Tel. + 353 (0)59 9137101
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
> Behalf Of Chris Kissinger
> Sent: 20 January 2004 16:04
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Spam bypassing gateway server
>
>
> Trying to figure out how some spam is totally bypassing the gateway mail
> server and not being scanned by MailScanner. The gateway server
> is the only
> MX record, mail sent from the regular mail server to a local domain still
> goes out and is scanned by the gateway server then delivered.
>
> On the ones getting through there's no MailScanner headers added, there's
> also no headers from it hitting the gateway server at all. If it was a
> timeout issue shouldn't it at least have the regular mail headers added?
>
> Any ideas would be great.
>
> Chris
>