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

[Jeff Lasman <blists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 11 February 2004 03:38 pm, Greg Hewitt-Long wrote:

> does that mean I can't have mailscanner AND spamassassin on a
> separate server to the intended final server?

You can.  We do.  We use, and highly recommend, the exim mailserver for 
this sort of work.  It's fast, secure, highly scalable, and has a very 
fine control.

> but I'd always anticipated leaving
> mailscanner on all the RAQ to do at least a FINAL virus scan, just
> incase the first server was down, as I expected the mail to by-pass a
> downed server... anything wrong with this theory?

If your RaQ is set to do be a secondary MX it will attract a lot of spam 
itself.  We don't do that at all.  For clients for whom mail is 
important to pay a lot to get it done right, we set up two MX systems 
to scan, and deliver to one that doesn't have an MX record.  With 
sendmail you can do that with mailertable.  But with exim we have 
extremely fine control, so we use exim.

Jeff
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