Re: Installing a spam appliance between Exchange Servers

The Front-End server can redirect to the spam appliance if you add it as a smarthost on the SMTP virtual server of the Front-End. However, this will break Exchange's message routing from FE to BE, and isn't likely to be supported by most anti-virus/anti-spam appliances.

Generally such appliances are the entry-points for inbound internet mail (and can also be used as the exit points for outbound internet mail).
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"Paul" <Paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:CE836CD3-1226-48F0-9418-25DD831253D6@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I work for a public school district and am trying to place a spam/antivirus
appliance between my front-end and back-end exchange servers on a private
network. Both servers are running Exchange 2003 SP2. The front-end server
is the entry point for all internet sourced messages. I want to redirect the
messages received by the front-end server queue to the spam appliance then
forward them to the back-end server. (The appliance manufacturer technical
support group claims they do not provide support for this part of the setup.)
I think I have the path for the appliance-to-back-end server set up
correctly. How do I configure the front-end server to redirect messages to
the spam/av appliance? Is this even the best way to go about integrating the
filter?

.

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