Auteur: Matthew Newton Datum: Aan: Conrad Lawes CC: exim-users Onderwerp: Re: [exim] Is the Exchange 2007 Edge Transport Server required?
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 12:00:29PM -0400, Conrad Lawes wrote: > My employer is planning on migrating from Sendmail (Linux) to Exchange
> 2007. We also have an SMTP gateway server running the Exim 4 (Linux). This
> gateway server also does spam filtering (Spamassassin) and virus blocking
> (Clam-AV) and does it quite well.
>
> As I understand it, the primary role of the Exchange 2007 edge transport
> server is for spam and virus filtering and smtp gatewaying. Since these
> roles are already being performed by the Exim server, do we really need a
> separate edge transport server?
We use Exim mail gateways to do the virus/spam checking, which
then feed into internal-only Exchange servers (amongst other
servers, depending on where a users mailbox is).
This setup works well.
You may need an internal-only domain for mail routing within
Exchange, which will need to be rewritten on the way out by the
Exim servers. I guess if you only have one internal Exchange
infrastructure, you might be able to do without this.
Matthew
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