mailscanner breaks etrn

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Thu Jan 12 14:24:24 GMT 2006


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On 12 Jan 2006, at 11:02, Dan Hollis wrote:

> Julian Field wrote on 12-1-2006 10:26:
>> It's very simple. ETRN extracts mail from the incoming queue, before
>> MailScanner has had a chance to process it. So it is an ideal route
>> for your users to get viruses and spam.
>> So I have to disable ETRN.
>
> The whole point of ETRN in our case is we are a backup MX for a  
> customer who runs their own mail server. They dont care one whit  
> about mailscanner, and in fact do not want mailscanner processing  
> it. They run their own filtering software on their own mailserver.  
> We are a backup MX for their mailserver since they are in a remote  
> location with poor satellite connectivity which often goes down.
>
> Can we please have ETRN an option?

Just edit the init.d script. It's pretty obvious if I remember right.
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