[Mimedefang] Mail Bypassing Mimedefang

[Bill Maidment]

Patrick Morris wrote:

>
> SOCKS with MIMEDefang?  Nope, not gonna work.
>
> I assume you're talking about accessing external POP and/or IMAP 
> servers?  I assume so because I can't think of *any* good reason to 
> not force outgoing mail through your own SMTP servers -- it's just too 
> easy, and should have next to no impact on your users other than a 
> configuration change.
>
> Depending on what you want to do, there are several client-side 
> products that will do spam and/or virus checking, if you're not 
> looking to get too fancy.  Off the top of my head, though, I can't 
> think of any anywhere near as thorough and flexible as what you'd get 
> with MIMEDefang.

Rather what I expected, but hoping you weren't going to say! Yeah, I was 
only talking about incoming POP/IMAP. We do have client side checking in 
place, but it's a real pain making sure the users keep them up-to-date, 
and as you say they are not a patch on mimedefang.

Cheers
Bill