[Mimedefang] Mail Bypassing Mimedefang
Patrick Morris
trick at adonis.net
Wed May 26 23:28:23 EDT 2004
Bill Maidment wrote:
> Our site is well protected by mimedefang/spamassassin/clamav/file-scan
> etc, 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. Is there any way of linking the socks server with mimedefang?
> Or is there another product that will do the job?
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.
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