Spam bypassing gateway server

[Matthew K Bowman]

Chris,

I had a similar issue here. We had port 25 opened on the mail servers. After
disabling port 25 from the outside it cured the problem.

Now we have 3 mailscanner gateways behind a F5 doing load balancing :)

Matthew

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Kissinger" <chrisk at OS-IT.NET>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 11:03 AM
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
>