The only way I know of to tie any kind of processing into local mail on the
IMail server would be to use the method outlined here:
http://support.ipswitch.com/kb/IM-20000517-DM01.htm
Basically, this uses the filtering program in place of the SMTP delivery
process. Of course you must incorporate the delivery process at the end of
the external processing you want to accomplish along with other factors. Not
for the weak at heart. If it was me I would set up the processing on another
machine and point to that as the machine that all mail is sent through. This
would mean that "all" your users would have to set up their clients with a
different SMTP server from their POP3/IMAP4 server. The only instance this
would effect would be the Web Messaging interface. To cover "all" bases you
will need to use the method in the KB article.
Eric S
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Marchette" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2000 5:29 PM
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] How to force local mail to get externallyscanned
> 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
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Len Conrad
> Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2000 1:22 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 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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