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Obsolete Releases => SME Server 7.x => Topic started by: addodge on August 24, 2006, 05:03:30 PM

Title: spam and virus filtering using built in panel
Post by: addodge on August 24, 2006, 05:03:30 PM

Hi,
I have a simple question (I hope).
If I enable the spam filtering and Virus filtering under the server panel, how will that work with email that is not hosted on the sme server itself?  Right now all I basically use sme for is a firewall/vpn solution, but would like to have sme scan incoming pop3 mail and mark it as spam before it sends it to the clients running outlook or outlook express.  I have been playing around with Endian Firewall at home and as soon as I put it in place, i started getting ****spam**** marked emails in my inbox.  That is a sweet feature since all i have to do after that is setup a rule to move all things marked spam into a signal folder, and it has been 95% accurate so far.  Thanks for your help.
Andy

Title: spam and virus filtering using built in panel
Post by: mmccarn on August 26, 2006, 03:45:00 PM

I don't think that SME does on-the-fly POP3 scanning as your users download email from an off-site mail server.

To use SME's spam filter, you need to run the mail through the server using SMTP or Fetchmail.

Title: spam and virus filtering using built in panel
Post by: cactus on August 26, 2006, 04:40:30 PM

Quote from: "mmccarn"

I don't think that SME does on-the-fly POP3 scanning as your users download email from an off-site mail server.

To use SME's spam filter, you need to run the mail through the server using SMTP or Fetchmail.

Would SMTP proxying also be an option? I thought all traffic was forced to go through the mail proxy or is this only for SMTP traffic and not for POP3 traffic?