On 2006-09-13, Chris Lutka <chrisl@iaw.on.ca> wrote:

> I do not know much about Sendmail apart from the tidbits I read in the
> newsgroups. I haven't found anything regarding my particular issue
> albeit I haven't looked extremely hard.
>
> My company uses MX Logic as a smart host to provide content filtering,
> virus detection, spam filtering, etc on all outbound (and inbound of
> course) email. Recently I had emailed literally hundreds of users to,
> by user request, advertise our warehouse sale. I received a notice
> from MX Logic stating that the volume was considered spam, either
> solicited or unsolicited, and was a violation of their policy. Well,
> when we wish to advertise our next sale, either I need to go through a
> third party system ($$$) or modify Sendmail. I would like to choose
> modifying Sendmail.
>
> With having a smart host already set up pointing to MX Logic's servers
> and since I wish to continue using it to provide the policy
> enforcement, how would I go about, with either rules, a smart host, or
> alternative method, bypass or avoid using the default smart host? I
> would be sending the message from the same email address each time so
> rules could be based on that. As for adding multiple smart hosts, I
> thought about that but can I have that machine itself send out the
> email if smart host is already turned on?
>
> Any ideas would be most welcome. Thank you in advance.

If your company is paying MX Logic to relay your mail, you should talk
to them about adjusting their filters to allow your mail through.
Otherwise what's the point in paying them for their service?

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John (john@os2.dhs.org)