RE: [cobalt-users] 2ndary mail server?

["Phil Beynon" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I have a client whose mailserver is provided by another company -
> we host their site on a dedicated RAQ, while another company
> handles their mail.
>
> This other company says that the SoBig virus is coming in at such
> a rate, that their mailserver can't cope.
>
> Their dedicated server has mailscanner, but none of the user
> accounts setup...
>
> how can we change it so that their mail first hits their
> dedicated server, we mailscanner it - remove the viruses etc, and
> pass it through to their 2ndary mailserver?  Any ideas welcomed -
> they are getting a little upset about their mail situation -
> which I completely understand!
>
> I was thinking that we need to simply setup a catchall on the
> machine this end, then create an MX record for this server, with
> a HIGHER priority mailserver setting.  Wouldn't that cause mail
> to be collected here, scanned, then passed for final collection
> to the existing mailserver?
>
> thanks
>
> Greg Hewitt-Long

Hi Greg,
Wouldn't you be better setting up a dummy domain name with an MX pointed at
that vsite then scanning, with that site then forwarding individual user
accounts?
I've not tried the way you are suggesting, but I would have thought relaying
to the same domain name might make the Raq protest since you could have
mails effectively looping infinately.

Phil


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