[Mimedefang] mimedefang and trend micro's interscan viruswall

Xiaoyan Ma xma at haas.berkeley.edu
Tue Mar 18 13:16:01 EST 2003


At 09:19 AM 3/18/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Xiaoyan Ma wrote:
>
> > I have upgraded MD to 2.3 as you suggested and installed trophie to run
>
>You upgraded to 2.30  Version 2.3 was released in January 2002.
>
> > I believe trophie hands scanned message to SA.  I am not sure if there is
>
>Actually, MIMEDefang sends the message to Trophie, Trophie tells
>MIMEDefang if it's infected or not.  SpamAssassin is not involved at all.

Once the messages is scanned by trophie, will it pass back to SA through MD 
for spam filtering?


> > followed by sendmail deamon which checks DNSBL checking.  Now I realize I
> > should have SA to run BL checking, instead of sendmail.  I have to look
> > into this though.
>
>Depends on what you want to do with messages that are coming from a host
>in a DNSBL.  If you want to 100% reject it, you'd be better off doing it
>in sendmail.

What I am not clear is the sequence. I now have sendmail check DNSBL and 
100% reject it.  and I would like this to happen before MD involves.  At 
what point MD takes over?

Thanks.

Xiaoyan




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