query regarding qurantine release

[Gareth]

How does your webmail send the mail?
Does it make a smtp connection or run sendmail locally?

If it makes a SMTP connection then you could probably configure it to
connect to the servers real IP address and not 127.0.0.1 and then it should
work.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info]On Behalf Of
> Mail Administrator
> Sent: 04 September 2007 21:28
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: query regarding qurantine release
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> Dear All,
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> I have the following setup on my server
>
> 1) Centos
> Primary Mail server
> Primary dns server
> Mailscanner
> Webmail server
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> most of the users use their browser to login to the above server for
> sending and checking their mails
> everything is been workin perfectly
>
> i installed mailwatch so that i could release quarantine mails at
> my decision
>
> i then followed the exact steps as mentioned in the FAQ
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> http://mailwatch.sourceforge.net/doku.php?id=mailwatch:faq
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> and now i tried to test
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> i sent a mail with attachment from my Yahoo account to my local mail
> server and it was blocked my mailscanner whcih is perfect
> n i logged in mailwatch and i could release the attachment and after i
> released if went perfectly to my mailbox. thats grt
>
> now i sent a mail with attachemnt from my local account using webmail to
> my yahoo account and it went perfectly fine
>
> and in my mailwatch details ..
> status as whitelist
> spam score 0.00
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> since 127.0.0.1 is white listed as per the rules..
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> So i see that Mailscanner n mailwatch works jus perfect for the mails
> received its grt
>
> but i have queries regading mail sent by users using the browser
> with webmail
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> 1) does mailscanner do a virus n spam check on the mails sent since i see
> in mailwatch the status is
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> status as whitelist
> spam score 0.00
> cause if this does not happen then the users pc inefcted will cause the
> mail server to spam or send infected mails out
>
> 2) obviously i would like mailscanner to scan and block any attachments
> sent by my users via webmail and they should only be sent when released
> from quarantine with mailwatch
>
> how do i the above .. setup rules for doin that
>
> basically i see that after i implemented the steps in FAQ regarding the
> release of quarantine mails i see that it works perfect for mails with
> attachment received and not for mails sent
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>
> really wd apprecite your help
>
>
> Regards
>
> Simon
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