OT: malscanner server bypassed

[Ugo Bellavance]

    [ The following text is in the "ISO-8859-1" character set. ]
    [ Your display is set for the "US-ASCII" character set.  ]
    [ Some characters may be displayed incorrectly. ]

Jan Agermose wrote:
> Hi
> 
>  
> 
> A bit off topic i think J I have a mailscanner server running in front
> of the pop3/smtp server. As the pop3 server receives mail for domains
> not handled by the mailscanner server I cannot close down the pop3
> server for mail not coming from/through the mailscanner.
> 
> Now the problem is that a lot of spam seams to hit the pop3 server for
> domains handled by the mailscanner but looking at the mailheader it
> looks like the spammails where delivered to the pop3 server directly
> bypassing the mailscanner. Could this be correct? And is this possible
> to prevent in any?
> 
>  
> 
> The MX of the domain is pointing to the mailscanner server.
> 
>  

Firewall rules?

------------------------ MailScanner list ------------------------
To unsubscribe, email jiscmail at jiscmail.ac.uk with the words:
'leave mailscanner' in the body of the email.
Before posting, read the Wiki (http://wiki.mailscanner.info/) and
the archives (http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/mailscanner.html).

Support MailScanner development - buy the book off the website!