How does one implement external virus scanning under IMS 5.1?
We have an iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 mail server running
under Solaris that we are currently using to accept all incoming
mail. We also have an older Mirapoint appliance which performs
standalone smtp virus scanning that we would like to use with
the iPlanet server to perform antivirus scanning. For capacity
reasons, however, we cannot have all incoming messages be first
handled by the Mirapoint box (via MX records) and then
redirected to our iPlanet box. We were hoping to use a
(conversion?) channel to accomplish this by redirecting all
incoming messages with attachments to the Mirapoint box's smtp
server and then having the Mirapoint box resend the scanned
messages back to the iPlanet smtp server. [NOTE: the Mirapoint
machine cannot redirect messages to smtp servers not running on
port 25]
I realize that this is not the perfect approach to this problem
because of the potential for a mail loop, but I was hoping that
we could setup another filter to not perform the redirection
based on either headers in a message or the fact that it is
coming from the Mirapoint IP address.
Any ideas or hopefully even an example configuration of how to
achieve this would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks, in advance,
Steve
