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[Julian Field]

On 09/06/2009 16:20, Steve Freegard wrote:
> Devon Harding wrote:
>    
>> Ok, here's my dilemma.  My ISP has blocked port 25 on my connection, so
>> I'm forced to have my DNS provider (EasyDNS) redirect all my email to
>> port 2525.  This works fine, the only problem now is I'm seeing an
>> influx of SPAM which I believe is because MailScanner is seeing EasyDNS
>> as a safe sender&  not processing any rules based on IP Address.  How do
>> I get MailScanner disregard the IP address from EasyDNS and process the
>> next hop?  I guess something like X-Forwarded-For for SMTP.
>>      
> > From the changlog of the latest 4.77 release:
>
> "Read IP Address From Received Header" has been extended, so it will now
> take a number instead of yes or no. "yes"=1 and "no"=0. If it is set to
> "yes" or a number, then the SMTP client IP address is taken from the
> "Received:" header. For example, setting it to 2 will cause the IP
> address to be taken from the 2nd Received: header.
>
>    
You took the words right out of my mouth! :-)
I knew someone would find this useful before too long...

Jules

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