Gotcha Len....except...
In this case
1 Local WEB mail still won't get scanned....not a huge deal, but...?
2 If I point all my mail clients' smtp settings to the virus scanner using
dns(assuming I separated my DNS entries for SMTP and POP...)...if the virus
scanner dies(and they do), then essentially all local users lose ability to
send mail.....?
Dave
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Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2000 1:22 AM
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Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] How to force local mail to get
externallyscanned
>The problem: If a user on the IMAIL machine sends an email to another user
>on the IMAIL machine, it does not get scanned because since it is local
>mail, IMAIL does not query the main DNS, and therefore never gets the
>address of the scanner....
This is a mail routing issue, and it's best attacked in DNS, no?
I assume this is your AV mail hub, followed by Imail?:
# dig citcomm.com mx
;; ANSWER SECTION:
citcomm.com. 1H IN MX 0 mail2.citcomm.com.
citcomm.com. 1H IN MX 10 mail.citcomm.com.
;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
mail2.citcomm.com. 1H IN A 208.226.190.21
mail.citcomm.com. 1H IN A 208.226.190.18
And your Imail accounts send their outgoing to mail.citcomm.com ?
Just change the A record for mail.citcomm.com:
mail.citcomm.com. A 208.226.190.21
Now, without your users changing anything, their local mail goes to
the AV hub, gets scanned, and in the local routing table of the AV
machine, have this routing entry:
citcomm.com 208.226.190.18
So the Imail users' outgoing mail to other local Imail accounts gets
routed through the AV hub and then to Imail.
Len
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