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

[Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, Gerald Waugh wrote:

> On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, Kim Schulz wrote:
>
> > [snip]
> > >  No, I don't think this is correct, as the email has to reach it's
> > > destination on the primary server where the user destined to get the
> > > email is. The secondary doesn't actually recieve the email, it just
> > > queue's it. When it eventually gets to the primary it will go through
> > > the mail scanner.
> >
> > I dont understand what you mean?
> >
> > users are on the secondary MX server. The primary one is just a scanning
> > proxy that should filter off all the unwanted mail.
>
> Oh! now I see, said the 'blind man' ;)

A little bit more....
We run spam/virus functions on the backup mail server, (no users there)
but the backup mailserver has the highest priority MX record. So I guess
it is the primary mailserver except it never actually receives email for
anyone, it just cleanses it and then sends it the the server with the
lowest priority, where the users are. Seems to work. Obviously if the
spammers are able to send directly to the server with the users, then....

Gerald
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