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Re: Gateway Virus Protection


From: "F.M. Taylor" <ftaylor1 () MYMAIL INDSTATE EDU>
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 16:32:28 -0500

We have implemented a solution that is keeping out a large percentage of
incoming malicious e-mail.

We are running MimeDefang + SpamAssassin + virus scan on our mail gateway.
Our mail gateway is actually 5 mailservers (V100s), set up in a round-robin-dns
fashion, with the MX record for every host in our netblock with a DNS entry and
port 25 open, pointing to this mail cluster.  The mail cluster is setup to
deliver direct if it is the "best MX" for a specified host.

Helms, Sandra wrote:
Greetings - We use WebMail on a Solaris server for student mail.  We do not
have virus protection on that server or any mail gateway virus protection. We
do not have a way to monitor whether or not students have current anti-virus
software running.   We are interested in solutions that have worked for
others.

Thanks very much.



Sandra J. Helms Director of Academic Computing Bradley University 1501 W.
Bradley Avenue Peoria, IL  61625 309.677.2808 sandy () bradley edu


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