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

[Greg Hewitt-Long <cobaltusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > 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?


The list of email aliases is massive - they already have windoze server handling it all - I'm just trying to help them out with the mail problem by using this RAQ4/500/512Mb as a first pass to remove the SoBig and other viruses, and pass it through to the destination server - it's their dedicated server, and they only use about 10Gb of traffic a month, the server is sat 99.95% idle, it's a perfect server to use, but I recall some talk about 2ndary MXs some time back, and a higer priority server will have the mail passed to it by a lower priority server I think.

>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.


Why?  If they already have:

MX - mail.theirdomain.com - high priority

and I setup

MX www.theirdomain.com - highest priority

seem sound - but it's been a hard day! ;{)

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