using Vispan with MailScanner

[Thom Jones]

On Wednesday 06 December 2006 11:13, Scott Silva wrote:
> Thom Jones spake the following on 12/6/2006 8:12 AM:
> > Just a quick question for anyone using Vispan -
> > Which is preferable?  Blocking at the sendmail access level or blocking
> > with IPTables?
> > thanks for any input.
>
> If you are already running iptables you can block there. But I am not sure
> if mail dropped at the firewall shows in the graphs like mail dropped at
> the MTA.
>
Actually, it does.  I changed the config to iptables earlier today and the 
blocked addresses are counting up just fine.
I was thinking that blocking at the firewall level would be more efficient 
which is what precipitated the question. 
Thanks!
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Thom Jones
Isthmus Publishing Co., Inc.
http://www.thedailypage.com

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