From: Trevor J. <Trevor@Videlicet.com> - 2009-07-30 13:45:26
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> if someone was able to *directly* reach your SMTP server w/o passing > through ASSP I think you had worse problems than just rejecting email; But that's exactly the point of the original question. We've looked and can't find out where, so we ask for helpful suggestions as to how this condition might have arisen in our set up. > in that case it would be a good idea having a look at the firewall > filtering the ports As mentioned, the firewall IS set up to nuke outside traffic to the amavisd ports. The question is how does the mail get past assp? The full header seems to be the only tool that can give us the clues. I'm not sure that the mail server log would, necessarily, give us any more information, unless it included port information that is not in the header. > and avoiding any host to directly reach the SMTP server Again, that was the original question. How COULD it do that? I can't see where, despite investigating it. Nor can Max (which surprises me). :-/ For example, can assp get too busy (or something like that) and simply pass mail on, unchecked, to the mail server? T. |