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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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 -- Stephen J Friedl | Security Consultant | UNIX Wizard | +1 714 544-6561 www.unixwiz.net | Tustin, Calif. USA | Microsoft MVP | steve@unixwiz.net |