multiple mailscanners with milter-null

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Fri Jul 6 19:58:23 IST 2007


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Mike Masse wrote:
> I've seen Julian's suggestion to use Milter-null to combat backscatter 
> and like the idea,
We are looking at a second revision (patent-safe this time) of 
incorporating this into MailScanner itself, so you don't need 
milter-null or equivalent.
> but am curious anyone knows if it's possible to work with different 
> outgoing and incoming servers?
Dead easy. Just run it on both servers and make sure the secret is the 
same. I use the same milter-null.cf on each server.
>    I have 3 MailScanner servers in front of my message store 
> servers.   One of the MS machines is for outgoing, and the other two 
> handle incoming with MX based load balancing.   If the outgoing puts a 
> hash in the header of the outgoing messages, will the incoming 
> server's recognize the outgoing server's hashes?
Yes, just use the same secret on them all.

Jules

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