>But it won't.  Remember, the E-mail got to the virus scanner because 
>IMail was set up magically

Imail is untouched, DNS was modified to

original

anydomain.com             MX 10  virusgate.ISPdomain.com
virusgate.ISPdomain.com   MX 10  virusgate.ISPdomain.com
mail.anydomain.com        MX 10  imail.anydomain.com

In the above scheme, local users send their outgoing to 
mail.anydomain.com, and it gets routed to Imail and delivered within 
Imail, no scanning.

But for scanning local-to-local mail:

anydomain.com             MX 10  virusgate.anydomain.com
virusgate.ISPdomain.com   MX 10  virusgate.anydomain.com
mail.anydomain.com        MX 10  virusgate.anydomain.com

Now local users send to mail (ie, no need to chagne their mail pgms 
at all), it gets routed to virusgate, is scanned, and virusgate 
forwards to the !! ip address !! of Imail, and Imail delivers the 
scanned mail locally.

There is no mail loop because the virus scanner's "next hop" for any 
Imail mailhost is not via an MX query, but by virusgate's internal 
routing table, or even its NT hosts file.

Len


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