[Assp-test] Question - HTTP Requests

[Henning H. <Hen...@ri...>]

Hi there,

Lately I have been dealing with some firewall settings and happened to
see some http requests initiated by our ASSP servers. I did not remember
to see those before. After some research, I found those connections in
association with HTML mails incoming at the same time (newsletters etc).
So far no problem.

What is a little obscure for me is which part of the gateway at last
initiates these connections and why, as it seems not necessary to get
HTML elements (images etc) at the gateway stage. Is it some phishing
detection? Is it ASSP or even ClamAV wanting to scan attachments? Does
MailEnable like to store the additional infos?

I do not really have a problem with this issue, I'd just like to
understand what is happening. Maybe someone has a clue?

I am running ASSP2, ClamAV and Mailenable on Win2k3.



Henning Hildebrand
System Engineer

RIBE Verbindungstechnik
Datenverarbeitung - Infrastruktur/Kommunikation
Tel (0 91 22) 87- 17 36
Fax (0 91 22) 87 - 11 - 17 36


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