On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 11:12 -0500, Yang Xiao wrote: > On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 09:34:46 -0500, John Aldrich <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thursday 11 November 2004 07:10 am, Daniel Chenard wrote: > > > In the DMZ if you want access it from outside and accept mail from > > > outside > > > > > Not necessarily... you can put it behind the firewall if you open up the > > correct ports on your firewall so that ONLY mail traffic can get to/from the > > server from outside. You may also want to allow port 80 if you plan to run a > > webmail server or the https port (whatever that is.) > > John > > > > > > > a typical settings is that you have a STMP gateway in the DMZ that > accepts emails, do spam/virus checking, then forward it onto another > box on the LAN so that users can access it. My setup is similar to this, I have one mail server that is accessible by the outside world, and deals with all mail routing, and then delivers (via LMTP) to another server running Cyrus and SMTP as a smart relay for dealing with Sieve auto responders etc. -- Douglas Furlong Systems Administrator Firebox.com T: 0870 420 4475 F: 0870 220 2178
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