Question : Some email bypassing spam filter

We have some mail bypassing the spam filter, and I think I know why.  I accidently erased the DNS settings for my domain on Network Solutions, and set up the following A records.

I have one record for proxy.(mydomain).org.  This goes to my public IP x.x.x.103, which the firewall sends to our spam filter.  This seems to work, and most staff are not getting much spam.

However, a few staff are getting a ton of spam, mostly, it seems, from "groups" on the ES.  For instance, we have a donations@(mydomain).org, a group with a few members, and this email is getting a lot of spam.

It might be because I have another A record which is mail1.(mydomain).org, - the actual name of the mail server) which goes to my public IP x.x.x.102 and the firewall sends this directly to the ES server, bypassing the spam filter.  We did this because everyone's mobile phone was not receiving email when we had only the x.x.x.103 set up.  Now the phones work fine, all email is flowing fine, but a few users are getting a ton of spam.

Answer : Some email bypassing spam filter

Power down your VM, right-click -> Edit Settings...and add another NIC, if you haven't already. Add a VM Network on your vSwitch1, give it a unique name. When you go through the add nic wizard of your VM, configure it to go through this other VMnetwork (there is a drop-down).

~coolsport00
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