RE: [Assp-user] Exchange, ASSP 1.09, and the Whitelist

[Carnes, J. <jc...@tr...>]

Your right about the pdf.  In my haste show the pdf I let it go.  I should
have retranslated it but I didn't.  Oh well.  What with my email address
publish it wouldn't take much to get my web page and IP address anyhow.  But
thanks for the reminder.
 
The system is setup  the way my predecessor did it so I can't explain the
idea behind the choices he made.
 
*  I looked at my description of my outbound mail and I neglected to put the
e500 in its place  it should be:
Outgoing 
Client-->Exchange-->ASP-->e500-->Firewall-->ISP 
 
*  According to the way I read the goodhosts comment:  "Do this if you're
running WhitelistOnly and have no plans to use the Bayesian database."  It
sounds like I should only check this if I don't use the Bayesian filtering,
which I do.  Sorry confused about why I want to check this.  My Greylist is
also blank.
 
* Correct about the console option.  It starts from a batch file in the
startup.
 
* I will make the change for the directory base.  I assumed '.' meant the
current directory from where it was launched.  Worth a try though.
 
* Relay host and port.
I would imagine the only option there would be the e500's IP address and the
port would be 25.  I will also give this a try.  The reason I haven't tried
this is because I read "You only need this if your clients don't deliver
mail through SMTP" and assumed I could leave it blank as we use SMTP on the
e500 and exchange server.  
 
I appreciated your input and ideas.  I'll give them a try and report back.
 
Thanks again.

Jim Carnes 
Information Systems Administrator 
Travel Destinations Management Group 
410-363-3111x2222 
jc...@tr... 


-----Original Message-----
From: Jannie Hanekom [mailto:jan...@op...] 
Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 4:17 PM
To: ass...@li...
Subject: RE: [Assp-user] Exchange, ASSP 1.09, and the Whitelist


Hi Jim
 
I've just done what I should have done from the start.  I've taken a look at
your config.  Please note that your efforts at obscuring the password and
internal addresses in a PDF are totally ineffectual:  anyone with Adobe
Acrobat Professional can look at the values behind the black marks.  There
is an interesting article about this here:
http://www.planetpdf.com/mainpage.asp?webpageid=2434
<http://www.planetpdf.com/mainpage.asp?webpageid=2434> 
 
Some observations:

*	

	Relayhost and relayport are blank.  This will break ASSP's outbound
functionality - it will simply consider mail going out from your network as
normal inbound mail.  I'm surprised you haven't got a loop going...
*	

	It seems you have goodhosts enabled... this feature was superseded
by the greylist.  I'm not sure how enabling both will affect ASSP
*	

	ASSP is not set to run as a service.  Presumably you're starting it
from the command line and letting it run in a console session?
*	

	"Directory Base" is set to "." - I'm not sure if this is valid.  In
my configuration, it's the short file name of where I've got ASSP;  i.e.
C:\Progra~1\ASSP.

 
The most important thing to fix is to set up ASSP to use Relayhost and
Relayport.  These should point to an SMTP service capable of delivering your
outbound mail.  Remember that ASSP is NOT an MTA - it cannot accept and
deliver your mail for you;  it can only forward it out to a smart host.
 
Regards
Jannie