Mailscanner & redirected mail

Devon Harding devonharding at gmail.com
Wed Jun 10 12:25:19 IST 2009


On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 3:34 AM, Julian Field
<MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk>wrote:

>
>
> 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
>
>
The setting works, but how do I get it work with RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW  which
still gives my messages a -1 score.

-Devon
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