mailEnable Standard Version: 1.95 and Brightmail

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TroelsM
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mailEnable Standard Version: 1.95 and Brightmail

Post by TroelsM »

Hi there

Is it possible to use Symantec Brightmail and mailEnable standard ?

admezor
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Post by admezor »

Shouldn't be a problem as Brightmail acts as a proxy similar to SMS. IOW's, you don't need to do any special configuring of ME other than change it's smtp port so Brightmail can answer in/out smtp/25. Brightmail and ME act as 2 distinct processes if on the same system.

Brightmail -> listens on port 25 for smtp traffic. Filters the mail, then passes it to the host you define. If on the same box, ME on 127.0.0.1:2525 (as an example). You setup ME to only accept incoming connections from 127.0.0.1:25. Some frown on using the loopback address, but you can use the local ip as well.

If you have internal users, they still send as usual to same address:port as usual. It just goes through Brightmail instead of ME, which also gives you the ability to utilize Brightmail's policy filtering/enforcement tools.

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