Maybe I missed something. Why have the second server relaying for the
gateway? If the second server only accepted mail from the gateway destined
for its users then this problem goes away.

Eric S
----- Original Message -----
From: "R. Scott Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 2:08 PM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] imail 7.15 filter question


>
> >It is doing some forwarding.  The server in question is located at
> >216.29.45.197 it accepts mail for about 40 domains.  It also acts as
gateway
> >(it has that awesome declude anti-spam/virus software on it) for a
secondary
> >server.
>
> In that case, I would recommend upgrading to the latest version of Declude
> JunkMail (v1.66 and higher will detect relaying attempts with colons in
> them, as part of the PERCENT test).  That's probably the easiest way to
> prevent this problem.
>
> >I took another look at the relay settings I had relay for address
containing
> >these addresses:
> >216.29.45.0
> >10.0.0.0      (my dmz)
> >192.168.168.0 (my lan)
> >
> >
> >The second server also is set relay for addresses containing:
> >10.0.0.0      (my dmz)
> >192.168.168.0 (my lan)
>
> >X-ORDB-Envelope-To: @iaccorp.com:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> There is the problem -- the second server allows the primary server to
> relay, but the primary server can accept E-mail in the format
> "@iaccorp.com:[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- which it will forward to the
> second server (since iE-mail for the iaccorp.com domain gets forwarded to
> the second server).  The second server then sees that the E-mail is
> destined to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and sends it there (since it is
allowed
> to relay for the primary mailserver).
>
> Upgrading Declude JunkMail to the latest version will automatically block
> these E-mails.
>
>                                                     -Scott
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