wouldn't making your content filter box your mx do it?
On Jan 20, 2011 4:15 PM, "Paul Amaranth" <p...@auroragrp.com> wrote: > I have a postfix configuration issue, I'm wondering if anybody has any > experience with this kind of situation. > > I have an openXchange groupware box running a version of Postfix. We recently > acquired an external email spam/virus/content filtering box that sits between > the mail server and the internet. I've configured relaying and DNS properly so > all incoming and outgoing mail goes through the filter box. That's all good. > > What I need to do now is run all internal email through the filter box. What I > need is for all mail from appliance.dom.org to be delivered locally on the mail > server, while all mail from anything-else.dom.org gets relayed to the > appliance. Obviously, just relaying all mail from the domain gets into a mail > loop. Having the users change their mail client config is also not in the > cards. > > I'm not a postfix expert, by any means, so this is giving me a headache. > > Incredibly, tech support from the company that supplies the box says they never > had anyone who wanted to filter internal mail with their box. > > The closest solution I can see is to split the postfix into incoming and > outgoing servers and have the outgoing instance deliver all mail to the > appliance while the incoming server handles delivery to the mailboxes. That > way, all mail would go through the appliance. > > Is this the way to do it, or is there another solution? If possible, I'd like to > avoid having to split the instance since that means I would have to reconfigure > the appliance and I do not have admin access on that. > > Any advice appreciated. > > -- > Paul Amaranth | Rochester MI, USA > Aurora Group, Inc. | Security, Systems & Software > p...@auroragrp.com | Unix & Windows >
