Re: intermediate smtp servers

This is a discussion on Re: intermediate smtp servers within the Bind Users forums, part of the DNS and Related Forums category; On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 09:06:33AM -0700, lili wrote: > b) an intermediate smtp server that will ...


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Old 07-21-2004
Steve Friedl
 
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Default Re: intermediate smtp servers

On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 09:06:33AM -0700, lili wrote:
> b) an intermediate smtp server that will continue transferring the
> message to the destination smtp server


Yes, (b) happens quite a lot these days: people are increasingly deploying
front-end mailservers that do spam/virus processing (perhaps in the DMZ)
before forwarding to the "real" mailserver internally, and that "real"
mailserver is not visible or reachable from the outside.

Steve

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