On Sun, 22 Aug 2004, Gene Delitzoy wrote: > On Sun, 2004-08-22 at 03:58, Peter Boy wrote: > > Am So, den 22.08.2004 schrieb Sanjay Arora um 08:26: > > > I want the DMZ server to receive the mails from the internet, for the > > > domains, it is set up as first MX and keep them in its queues. I want > > > the Green server to periodically connect to the DMZ qmail server and get > > > all mails from it...as the DMZ server cannot connect to it due to the > > > iptables firewall. > > > > The SMTP does not support your model to use your "green" server to > > "pull" mail from the DMZ server. It is a "push" type communication > > model. > > > > So you have to use something like > > - pop protocol to transfer the mail (e.g. fetchmail) > > - nfs/ftp to periodically transfer the mailbox files > > - use cron to peridically allow incoming smtp on the firewall > > and initiate a resend on the DMZ mailserver > > > pretty easy to do this if not exactly the way you want, setup your dmz > machine to answer for your domains(mx), then use transport maps to send > all mail for those domains to your specified host. This is with postfix, > postmap transport after your finished. > http://www.postfix.org/STANDARD_CONFIGURATION_README.html#firewall Ummmm, the OP said he was using qmail, didn't he? Tom
