Scalix with MailScanner/MailWatch and BarricadeMX

Discuss installation of Scalix software

Moderators: ScalixSupport, admin

bcarruthers
Posts: 44
Joined: Wed Feb 21, 2007 12:39 am
Contact:

Scalix with MailScanner/MailWatch and BarricadeMX

Postby bcarruthers » Tue Nov 11, 2008 4:50 pm

Hi All,

I have a MailScanner, MailWatch and Scalix setup which has been stable for quite some time now. I have now purchased BarricadeMX and need to run it on port 25 in front of Scalix, MailScanner, etc. I am confused on how to configure the MailScanner / Scalix setup to achieve what is necessary.

At the moment it is working like this (please correct anything I get wrong)
-------------------------
Scalix listens on port 25 for external mail
Scalix passes mail to sendmail listening on internal smtp port 25 by way of scalix milter/filter option in smtpd.cfg file

This is shown from lsof –i:25
sendmail 2684 root 4u IPv4 7042 TCP localhost.localdomain:smtp (LISTEN)
omsmtpd 7512 root 4u IPv4 296208 TCP mailserv.iii.net.au:smtp (LISTEN)

Sendmail then put the mail into /var/queue/mqueue.in
MailScanner scans it puts it into /var/queue/mqueue

Sendmail passes mail back to Scalix for mailbox delivery.


Eventual outcome is to set it up like this:
-----------------------
BarricadeMX runs on port 25 for external and internal port bindings
Scalix smtp daemon runs on port 26
Sendmail daemon runs on another free port

Barricade scans mail passes it to scalix, scalix passes mail to sendmail via milter option (this part Im not sure of). Sendmail passes mail to MailScanner, MailScanner passes back through sendmail and mail delivered to scalix.

Outgoing mail relayed to BarricadeMX port 25 from scalix smtp on port 26 for further scanning.

Other option:
-----------------
Is there a way to set this loop up so mail can go from

BarricadeMX (25) -> sendmail/MailScanner -> Scalix?

That way I could bypass the scalix milter/filter loop and make my life easier.

Any suggestions are appreciated, we trialed BarricadeMX on another test host but due to its small footprint there is no need to run on a different host.

Thanks,
Brett
--

Brett Carruthers

Return to “Installation”



Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 3 guests

cron