Hi,
yes, but I have a first mail server with exim that check for virus and spam
with exim's acl. Then if it's ok, it forward the e-mail to the second server
( the one I was talking about).
So it should be ok.
Thank you,
JPB
2006/7/12, Renaud Allard <renaud@???>:
>
> You are safe with this router as someone else explained.
>
> But with amavis, you are unable to reject spam or viruses at SMTP time
> (like exim ACL are able to do), that means you have to accept them
> first, so accept the responsibility for what happens to the mail, which
> is a very bad idea IMHO.
>
> Imagine you have someone sending a mail which is seen by amavis as spam.
> There are 2 possibilities:
> either you destroy it -> if it was a real spam, no problem. If it was a
> wrong detection nobody is warned.
> either you pass it through -> if it was a real spam, the user still gets
> it, so there is no point scanning it. If it was legit, it's great, as
> the user gets it.
>
> Sending bounces notifying someone sent a spam or virus will waste your
> time, bandwidth, CPU and will probably make you blacklisted as _your
> server_ sends collateral spam.
>
> A roundabout would be to quarantine spams. But who will warn (and when),
> when a user doesn't know he didn't receive that real mail which was
> qualified as spam.
>
> When rejecting at SMTP time, if a mail was misqualified, the sender is
> warned by its own mailserver. If it was real spam, no bandwidth, time or
> CPU is wasted. That's why exim is great.
>
> Jean-Paul BALOCHE wrote:
> > ok,
> >
> > thank you very much for your answer, everything is ok.
> >
> > Just one last question :
> > On this server, I'm running amavis router.
> > I'm affraid that if I put the virtual_aliases routeur after amavis
> > routeur it will never check the virtual_aliases router ?
> >
> > my configuration :
> >
> > begin routers
> >
> > amavis:
> > driver = manualroute
> > condition = "${if eq {$interface_port}{10025} {0}{1}}"
> > # if scanning incoming mails, uncomment the following line
> > # change local_domains accordingly
> > domains = +local_domains
> > transport = amavis
> > route_list = "* localhost byname"
> > self = send
> >
>
>
>
>
