[svlug] Sendmail Issue

[David Chait]

I wanted to go that route at first (and had it working fine), but was
overruled. Money has already been spent on this solution, so I just need to
make it work within the boundaries of our environment.

-David

----- Original Message -----
From: "Walt Reed" <wreed at hubinternet.com>
To: "David Chait" <davidc at bonair.stanford.edu>
Cc: <svlug at lists.svlug.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 1:08 PM
Subject: Re: [svlug] Sendmail Issue


> davidcn d, David Chait said:
> > All,
> >     Like a lot of you, my department has mandated that IT install
Anti-Spam filters on our server side to deal with the constant deluge of
mortgage offers and work at home opportunities we seem to get on a minute by
minute basis (no we wont discuss the porn problem....).. Anywho, we
purchased a license for Activestate's Puremessage product which incorporates
sendmail to handle it's routing, and I cannot seem to get it to play nicely
with the other mail daemon's involved with the process. Here is a schematic
of the current setup:
> >
> >
> > Internet -> Trend Micro AV (25/tcp) -> Exim MTA (2525/tcp) -> Delivery
> >
> > The Activestate config should look like so:
> >
> > Internet -> Activestate (25/tcp) -> Trend (2525/tcp) -> Exim MTA
(2526/tcp) -> Delivery
> >
> > The problem I am seeing is that sendmail does not want to route to an
alternate port on the same machine but rather attempts to deliver the
message on it's own bypassing the rest of the process. Any ideas?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > David Chait
>
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> Um, since you are already using exim, why not just use Spamassasin?
> Marc has a great page at http://marc.merlins.org/linux/exim/
>
>