[86872] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Outbound mail filtering on large mail / web server farms - just an idea or two that I have
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Sun Nov 20 22:26:13 2005
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 08:55:39 +0530
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists@gmail.com>
To: Michael Loftis <mloftis@wgops.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <AB7B6BC769A19226052F9496@dhcp-2-206.wgops.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 11/20/05, Michael Loftis <mloftis@wgops.com> wrote:
> quite often, which they already do to our normal mail systems even when
> things are going well, again, because of forwards. I'd imagine there's a
> way I could get just the (AOL) forwarded mail pushed to a separate machin=
e
The difference is of course that when you separate .forward traffic to
a separate IP you tell AOL its a forwarding server. And setup reverse
dns + hostname for that box that says something like
"dotforward.wgops.com" ...
Once you do that you should be reasonably good to go
> with our current (older version) Postfix setup but I haven't actually
> looked into it. We use SQL based tables for everything in order to make
> automation much simpler on our end.
Implementing these suggestions is much simpler once you do that
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Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists@gmail.com)
