From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Feb 19 19:33:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from misery.sdf.com (misery.sdf.com [204.244.213.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B5F437B401 for ; Mon, 19 Feb 2001 19:33:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from tom (helo=localhost) by misery.sdf.com with local-esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 14V2pA-00008X-00; Mon, 19 Feb 2001 18:46:44 -0800 Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 18:46:43 -0800 (PST) From: Tom Samplonius To: Corey Ralph Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dedicated smtp relay box In-Reply-To: <20010220142734.B91585@corey.datafast.net.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Corey Ralph wrote: > Thanks Tom. > > That seems like a good idea, but we have found a catch. > > Say if one of our customers sends to one of our own domains. The mail > server they relay through is the same one that hosts the destination > domain. So their mail would be delivered locally and never get scanned. > > I can't change that 'mail' A record which the customer's pcs reference to > point to another box, as the same name is used for POP3 and IMAP. It is never a good idea to do that. It limits your scalability. Use a "mail-in" host for the MX record, and a "pop" host for inbound mail and a "mail" host for outbound mail. Almost unlimited scalability. > And I would prefer to keep the scanner on the existing box, as it is > fairly big box (cpu & ram), I don't have another box so large on hand. I thought the issue was that it was overloaded and you had to get another box anyhow? Also, the above scheme allows you to add as many scanner systems as required. > Cheers, > Corey > > > On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 06:17:20PM -0800, Tom Samplonius wrote: > > > > On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Corey Ralph wrote: > > > > > Or should I just set up another qmail box? Or is there a simple way > > > that I am missing? > > > > Point the preferred MX to another box, have it virus scan the e-mail and > > forward the e-mail to the existing mailbox storage server. > > > > > Cheers, > > > Corey > > > > Tom > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message