Re: Email and DMZs (iptables)?
From: Brian Cervenka (brian@zerobelow.org)Date: 09/10/01
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Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 10:10:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Brian Cervenka <brian@zerobelow.org> To: Sean O'Meara <sean@dtmf.org> Subject: Re: Email and DMZs (iptables)? Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0109101008160.22902-100000@abalone.zerobelow.org>
> Could the internal mail server just scp over the mail from the external
> machine? You would have to set up some crontabs and clock
> syncronozations, and maybe even a script to add a line or two to the
> headers in the mails, but this to me seems a much simpler solution that
> messing with the firewall.
It could work, but as blizbor pointed out (off list):
> Yes. But I've seen this a little bit complicated to avoid problems with
> not completly arrived emails.
With some mail servers, you would not need to worry about clocks, or
anything. If there's a file in the mail spool directory, the mail server
will send it. Assuming you had the same mail server inside and out, then
you'd be fine. (except for the partially received mail issue).
--brian
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