Weird Problem with MailScanner {Scanned by Allteks Mailsafe}

Martin.Hepworth martinh at solidstatelogic.com
Tue Oct 23 17:17:51 IST 2007


Theres also

http://smfs.sourceforge.net/smf-sav.html

and

http://www.milter.info/sendmail/milter-ahead/

which can do a similar job of look-ahead..

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Martin Hepworth
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Paul Houselander
> Sent: 23 October 2007 17:11
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: RE: RE: Weird Problem with MailScanner {Scanned by Allteks
> Mailsafe}
>
> Hi Damian
>
> Take a look at mimedefang - www.mimedefang.org - its what I use here and
> works really well, no need to keep maps of all the users, just the domain
> and IP address of the destination mailserver, it will then do a call ahead
> check to see if the user is valid (assuming the destination mailserver
> will
> respond with a 550 user not found)
>
> Theres an example of a mimedefang filter that does exactly what you want
> here http://www.mimedefang.org/kwiki/index.cgi?RelayCheckAddresses
>
> Cheers
>
> Paul
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
> > [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info]On Behalf Of Damian
> > Rivas
> > Sent: 23 October 2007 16:41
> > To: MailScanner discussion
> > Subject: RE: RE: Weird Problem with MailScanner {Scanned by Allteks
> > Mailsafe}
> >
> >
> > People:
> >
> > I've finally updated SA after installing all the perl modules which were
> > missing. Now what is left to finish this is the Backscattering filter on
> > sendmail.
> >
> > If you know a better way than inserting every single valid address for
> > each domain in the access file for relay and catching the rest, please
> > let me know because it would be a real pain to write every single mail
> > address.
> >
> > Thank you all for everything, you've helped me a lot, I've learned a lot
> > of stuff thanks to you.
> >
> > Regards.-
> >
> > Damian
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