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End point anti-virus email alerts - SMTP Authentication

ChrisH

Hey guys,

I'm being told from my hosting provider that there is no way to get our Sophos virus killer to use SMTP authentication to send virus alerts.  They are insisting that we install an SMTP server into our web-server group, which I am not happy to do.

While I wouldn't want to question my hosting provider, and I appreciate there are ways around this with firewalls etc, I am stunned that Sophos would promote spam in such a way as to demand an SMTP server which is not completely locked down with SMTP auth be avaliable.

Is there any way to enable this feature?  Or do I have to bite the bullet and make an SMTP server without auth avaliable?

Many Thanks,

CH.

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    I suppose another option on the client is to use the event log as a trigger for your own alerts (Eventtriggers.exe ?), maybe some agent on the client that performs the "client" as far as SMTP goes that can react to the event log.  With the new event logs you can attach tasks quite easily so could be worth looking into. On event id, call script to call a mail exe, I'm sure there are plenty of lite-weight mail clients.

    Cheers,

    Jak

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    I suppose another option on the client is to use the event log as a trigger for your own alerts (Eventtriggers.exe ?), maybe some agent on the client that performs the "client" as far as SMTP goes that can react to the event log.  With the new event logs you can attach tasks quite easily so could be worth looking into. On event id, call script to call a mail exe, I'm sure there are plenty of lite-weight mail clients.

    Cheers,

    Jak

    :22727
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