using Vispan with MailScanner

Richard D Alloway ralloway at winbeam.com
Thu Dec 7 15:13:09 GMT 2006


On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, 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.

Mail dropped via iptables is NOT reported anywhere in Vispan since the mail 
logs don't include any information about connections blocked in this manner.

-Richard D Alloway
  Chief Technical Officer
  Winbeam Inc, A ClearWire Company


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