mail server suggestions

[Yang Xiao]

On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 09:34:46 -0500, John Aldrich <john at chattanooga.net> 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.

Yang