is it possible, to give sendmail his own ip address?

[Thomas_V]

Hi!

first: sorry, for my bad english, but i hope you will understand what i mean:

I'm running a plesk 12 system with 2 IP addresses.
One for the webserver and one for the mailserver
I use the Outgoing Mail Control option to limit the amount of outgoing mails to prevent blacklisting...

I want to do the following:
All the Mails, generated by scripts, should use the webservers ip, and all other mails should use the mail ip

The idea behind is: When a customers website is hacked and a mail sending script is placed there, i want to have a additional security to outgoing mail control, so if really an ip is blacklisted, it's only the webservers ip and the mail traffic from the mail ip is not blocked...

Is it possible to configure this?

Much greetings from germany
Thomas

 

[UFHH01]

Hi Thomas_Vorderobermeier,

sendmail is a message transfer agent and not a mailserver. You have to install a second mailserver on the webserver's IP in order to implement your szenario, but you will have to install, configure and administrate this second mailserver on your own ( think of using no standard port ), because there is no option in Plesk to handle two mailservers.

 

[Thomas_V]

Thank you very much for your answer! I guessed that already...