Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 15:32:50 -0500 From: Bob Martin <bob@buckhorn.net> To: Richard Kuhns <rjk@wintek.com> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question about virus/spam filtering for customers with mail servers Message-ID: <41056A72.7020308@buckhorn.net> In-Reply-To: <41056580.3050007@wintek.com> References: <41056580.3050007@wintek.com>
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Richard, Change your servers to primary. (Since they really are, they should be anyway). That has the added advantage of providing your customers a queuing service in the event that their mail server is down (You mail servers will queue the mail until they come back on line) You mention that you have multiple servers. That's good. Give them the same MX priority. Also, if you can put them on different backbones, that's even better. Bob Martin Richard Kuhns wrote: > I'm hoping someone will be willing to share a better way to handle this. > > We offer virus/spam filtering for customers with their own mail servers. > We're currently implementing this by configuring the customer's firewall > to only accept smtp connections from our servers (all running sendmail > under FreeBSD 4), and the customer's MX records point to their server > first and our server(s) second and third. In most cases this works just > fine -- attempts by a mail server to deliver mail directly to the > customer fail, the mail server tries the secondary MX site (us), we > accept and filter the message and deliver it to the customer (or not). > > Sometimes, though, there's a very long delay for messages to be > delivered - up to several days. In each case I've been able to track > down, it's been a Microsoft Exchange 2000 server that has issues with > sending messages to the secondary mail server. > > Does anyone have a good way we could use to list our server as the > primary, and then forward the messages? I've been going through the bat > book, but the indexing leaves a little to be desired and I haven't found > anything that looks applicable yet. > > Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance... > - Rich
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