Running Mailscanner AFTER sendmail?

[hermit921]

MailScanner does not query the MTA.  MailScanner only deals with email that
the MTA has already accepted.  MailScanner never rejects or bounces any
messages.  The idea is to have your MTA (sendmail, postfix, exxim, qmail,
etc) know what accounts are valid.

hermit921


At 04:10 PM 6/9/2004, you wrote:
>Well ok.  So how do you get Mailscanner to query the MTA in realtime and
>tell you that the recipient is invalid?
>
>The whole goal of this is to stop Mailscanner from automatically
>queueing the forwarding everything (as is the default behavior).
>
>Cya.
>Scott.
>
>On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 16:58, hermit921 wrote:
> > MailScanner doesn't know about the accounts, just the MTA - in this case,
> > postfix.
> >
> > hermit921
> >
> > At 03:41 PM 6/9/2004, Spam Account wrote:
> > >In this case, Mailscanner and sendmail run on the same system.
> > >
> > >How did you get Mailscanner to read and recognize your account list?
> > >
> > >Cya.
> > >Scott.
> > >
> > > >
> > > > We decided to keep an account list on each MailScanner system = choice
> > > > B.  Each account change on our sendmail server gets rsync'd to the
> > > > MailScanner boxes as part of updating the local aliases file.
> > > >
> > > > This works fine, but it is an extra step.  We hope to eliminate this by
> > > > having the MailSCanner MTAs check with our main server for a valid ID
> > > > before accepting the mail, but not yet.
> > > >
> > > > hermit921

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