[Hh#99865] Question On Email Routing

[HelioHost]

Hi,

Is it possible to setup a email routing with spam filtering?

For example: alice@yyy.com sends an email to max@xxx.com, it first passes t=

hrough max@xxx.com on heliohost mail server for spam filtering and then dir=

ects to max@xxx.com on mx.xxx.com (The actual mail server)=20

Thanks,

Mike=

[Krydos]

Yeah, probably. Spamassassin spam filtering is available through cpanel. Then you can forward all mail that makes it to the inbox.

[HelioHost]

But forwarding the inbox to another inbox with the same email address (just=

a different mx). Is that even possible?=

[wolstech]

You're not supposed to be able to have 2 separate mailboxes on different servers, but with the same exact email address and domain (it's doable, but not supposed to be done...) What you're basically wanting to do is make our server into a spam filtering appliance for a third party mail server. Since you want to use 2 different mail servers (ours for filtering and the third party for actual mail) the proper way to do this in your case is probably to have 2 domains and addresses. The first has the filter and forwards to the second, and you never give the second one out.

 

For example, you have max@example.com (example.com's MX is pointed here) and max@filtered.example.com (filtered.example.com's MX is pointed elsewhere). You give out max@example.com, people send mail to it. That mail would come here, go through the filter, then when it lands in the inbox, be forwarded to max@filtered.example.com (on the other mail server). You only check the max@filtered.example.com mailbox for mail, and configure your mail client to send mail with the "From" and "Reply-To" set to max@example.com so replies get delivered to the filter. Spam will either be left on our server or discarded, depending on how spam assassin is configured.

 

There's better ways to implement a spam filter, but it should work...