you can policy route all outboud smtp traffic to a local mail handling network which scans mail for that sort of thing. we're going through an overhaul on our mail clustering at work to add virus checking to outbound mail to insure that we're not a source of virii going out to customers. more information regarding policy routing can be found here. [1] outbound analysis of mail for virii on your outbound mailserver is an exercise for you to handle. ;-) when last we saw our hero (Wednesday, Nov 27, 2002), Raymond Norton was madly tapping out: > I manage a large network of school districts. There is an ongoing > problem of some of their mail servers sending out virus type > traffic. Is there a solution I can put at our gateway that would > stop virus type mail from being sent to the world? In theory it > would be nice to add an access-list to our boarder router that would > send all outgoing mail to a server to be scanned before leaving our > network. > references ---------- [1] - http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/cc/techno/protocol/tech/plicy_wp.htm http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk648/tk365/technologies_tech_note09186a008009481d.shtml -- steve ulrich sulrich at botwerks.org PGP: 8D0B 0EE9 E700 A6CF ABA7 AE5F 4FD4 07C9 133B FAFC