On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 16:26, Ross Vandegrift wrote: > On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 09:40:00AM +0000, Ian MacDougall wrote: > > We have a similar structure, but for reasons I won't go into we have SA > > behind our primary mailservers. > > Actually, would you mind going into this? It seems really strange to do > it this way, but I'm sur eyou have reasons. I'd be interested in > learning why someone would setup like that.
Oh OK (and sorry for the ugly disclaimer). The primary reason was that I could control how the mail flowed from our primary mailservers into the new machine running SpamAssassin, so whilst I was testing I could harvest off 2 or 3 email addresses and only send them through the spam filtering. In this way I could test whether the system I had built worked as I expected without disrupting the entire company's email and as I grew more confident that the connectivity of the system and logic of the code was correct I was able to gradually increase the load on the server. I could just as easily remove the system from the infrastructure again without disruption to the email system. I would agree with the inference in your question that it would be better to deploy the spam filtering as close to the perimeter of the network as possible, and now that I know the system I have works, it is a possibility that I will move it to be the primary mailserver in our infrastructure (if I get time :) ) -- Ian MacDougall *********************************************************************** CONFIDENTIALITY. This e-mail and any attachments are confidential and may also be privileged. If you are not the named recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to another person, use it for any purpose, or store or copy the information in any medium. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of Pinnacle Insurance Plc. If you have received this e-mail in error please immediately notify our Helpdesk on +44 (0) 20 8207 9555. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. www.mimesweeper.com ********************************************************************** ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: Thawte.com Understand how to protect your customers personal information by implementing SSL on your Apache Web Server. Click here to get our FREE Thawte Apache Guide: http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0029en _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
