Re: [cobalt-users] Mailscanner not getting viruses all the time

[Jeff Lasman <blists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 11 February 2004 11:34 am, Dan Kriwitsky wrote:

> It's already been seen that spammers are deliberately targeting the
> secondary MX as many sites do not run RBL or virus checks there.

Interestingly, using exim on a secondary MX we no longer find it 
impossible (or even hard) to run RBLs, Spam-Assassin, and virus checks 
there.  We're even able to check for users if our clients will give us 
their user list for their secondary MX (we obviously can't check for it 
if the primary is down).

Running email services is no longer as easy as it once was; they key is 
to continue to adapt.

We find that facing the internet with exim is a great way to keep up; we 
clean email with exim and then move it downstream to the RaQs, which 
aren't advertised in MX.

We're also looking into setting up RaQs so they won't accept email from 
any IP# except ours, so spam and virii should be a thing of the past.

Jeff
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