Hi Matt, thanks for the information.
Is it possible to have mailservers share SA database? We would like to do a spam-list for several of our partner ISPs - will be approx 3 datacenters involved at the first step - including all mailservers there! Is there any possibility to use SA like that?? We will then do the setup / maintanance of SA and handling all the SPAM-marked mail for manual review... Is it possible with SA to - set an address to send all possible spam to? - make blocked mails-adresses / domains / IPs... come through to the specified address? Bye, Alexander > At 12:55 PM 6/19/2003 +0200, TeamHost Limited wrote: >>Hello list. >> >>Is it possible to use spamassassin before it reaches the server?? >> >>We would like to implement it on a firewall system which is set in >> front of our servers. >>Would this be possible? >>Has anyone done that yet? >>What is needed? > > No, this is fundamentaly impossible. A firewall can modify packets (ie: > the cisco PIX) to modify the behavior of a SMTP session, however it > would be impossible (or absurdly difficult at the very least) for a > firewall to be sufficiently stateful to buffer an entire email and > handle the entire transaction. > > Even if you were to do that, your firewall would now effectively be a > full-blown mailserver of it's own, that runs SA and then passes inbound > email to an internal mailserver. And let's face it.. at that point you > may as well do a two-mailserver setup. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: INetU Attention Web Developers & Consultants: Become An INetU Hosting Partner. Refer Dedicated Servers. We Manage Them. You Get 10% Monthly Commission! INetU Dedicated Managed Hosting http://www.inetu.net/partner/index.php _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
