OT: Scanning outgoing mail

Billy A. Pumphrey bpumphrey at woodmclaw.com
Fri Oct 6 19:45:11 IST 2006


> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Kevin Miller
> Sent: Friday, October 06, 2006 11:40 AM
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: RE: OT: Scanning outgoing mail
> 
> Billy A. Pumphrey wrote:
> 
> > Does mailwatch log these messages too?  If so how do these entries
> > show up simply as:
> > From					To
> > Subject
> > Internal email address		External email address
> outgoing
> > email
> >
> > For you exchange admins:
> > I could research it, but to save time is someone willing to answer
> > this question if you know it quickly.
> > How do you foward exchange emails to the mailscanner machine.
> >
> > What settings on the MailScanner machine do you have to make for it
to
> > accept them, any?
> >
> > I am sorry for so many questions, but I have not seen this covered.
> 
> System Manager
> 1.  Admdinistrative group
> 2.  First Administrative group (or which ever one you are dealing with
-
> I only have the one)
> 3.  Routing Group, First Routing Group (again, you may have others),
> Connectors
> 4.  Pick your connector.  Probably called Internet or something like
> that.
> 5.  Right click, properties
> 6.  Select 'Forward all mail through this connector to the following
> smart hosts', enter the hostname or IP.  If you enter the IP, put it
in
> brackets, ex: [192.168.1.1]
> 
> All your outbound mail will be sent to your MailScanner box.  I didn't
> have to make any changes on my MailScanner gateway - it treated it
like
> any other email.  I'm using sendmail, btw.  You will have to have your
> gateway MTA set to allow relays either from your internal subnet, or
at
> least the Exchange machine.  You don't want to open up the box to any
> relay of course.
> 
> Logging will look like what you currently have for logging on the
> gatewway.  Mail from Exchange will land in mqueue.in, be scanned
(unless
> you whitelist it which is probably a good idea performance wise), be
> processed, then moved to mqueue where it will be delivered to the
remote
> address somewhere in internetland...
> 
> ...Kevin
> --
> Kevin Miller                Registered Linux User No: 307357
> CBJ MIS Dept.               Network Systems Admin., Mail Admin.
> 155 South Seward Street     ph: (907) 586-0242
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You guys are so awesome!  I have it set up now.  I had to go ahead and
edit the access file and add the exchange server as a relay.  

Also I had no connector there so I had to add a new one.  

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