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RE: Proxy scanning for spam

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher L. Morrow)
Tue Jul 6 02:03:54 2004

Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2004 06:01:40 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@mci.com>
In-reply-to: <B0009265175@mail.bblabs.net>
To: "Christopher J. Wolff" <chris@bblabs.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu



On Mon, 5 Jul 2004, Christopher J. Wolff wrote:

> Christopher,
>
> I meant option #1.

a quickie google shows:
http://assp.sourceforge.net/

which looks promising... additionally:
http://www.ironport.com/

Though, why not just use brightmail/messagelabs if it's to MX's you can
control? Offer this as a 'service' to your customers for $X/seat/month?

> On Mon, 5 Jul 2004, Christopher J. Wolff wrote:
>
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > If I have a network segment connected to a BGP peer, is there a way that I
> > can hang a box of some kind off of that segment that will sniff out and
> > block malicious/spam email before it hits the customers?
>
> Do you mean a host that can have all tcp/25 routed to it, transparently
> pick-up/scan/re-deliver emails for your customers? or did you mean
> something you could add to your customer relay boxes? (or your MX hosts
> that customers use) Or thirdly, something to protect the internet from
> your users?
>

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