OT submission port question
Mark Nienberg
lists at tippingmar.com
Thu Mar 11 02:40:13 GMT 2010
On 3/10/2010 11:51 AM, Steve Campbell wrote:
> Sort of related to Mailscanner, but more sendmailish.
>
> I've had to start using the submission port with authentication for
> our roaming sales staff (isn't it always the sales staff that causes
> problems?). I've basically just added the port 587 and indicated it
> needed authentication to my normal sendmail configuration. This
> eliminates outside users from using me as a relay but allows the sales
> staff to use our server as if they were on-site. No problem up to this
> point.
>
> The main problem is that now these emails go through MS. And because I
> whitelist based on our internal IPs, these roaming IPs from which the
> sales staff is sending get trapped and quarantined sometimes since
> they're treated as non-local senders.
>
> Can someone make a recommendation on how to handle these roamers when
> using MS, please? Maybe a way to drop them into mqueue instead of
> mqueue.in!
>
>
Here is one way to recognize authenticated messages and compensate for
them with spamassassin rules.
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.mail.virus.mailscanner/21074
Mark Nienberg
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