[Mimedefang] Mail Bypassing Mimedefang

[Damrose, Mark]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Maidment [mailto:bill.maidment at elgas.com.au]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 10:21 PM
> To: mimedefang at lists.roaringpenguin.com
> Subject: [Mimedefang] Mail Bypassing Mimedefang
> 
> 
> but unfortunately the powers-that-be insist on allowing 
> people to access other external mail servers via socks. 
> The result is that we get all sorts of undesireable email 
> completely bypassing the mail server. 

You've gotten some pretty good advice so far, but one
thing I think should be asked is why does your company
insist on using external pop/imap services?

Are they company mailboxes?  My solution to that would 
be to figure out why they don't trust your server and 
fix that.  Barring that, the fetchmail suggestion is 
probably the only one that could work.

Is your company allowing your users to check their 
personal e-mail on company time?  While that may be 
intended to be a nice benefit, it doesn't seem to be
working out that way.  fetchmail is probably not a good
solution here, as you would need the usernames and 
passwords for everyone's personal e-mail accounts.
In this case, I would insist that they use a different 
e-mail client so it's clear what is company e-mail, that
you are responsible to clean.  The users that wish to
check their personal e-mail should be made to understand
that they are responsible to do their own anti-spam 
measures.

Remember that you can't solve what is essentially a 
people problem with technology.