Re: Effective Use of Gateway

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Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 15:42:23 -0700
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> Kevin W. Gagel wrote:
> >>to anywhere. It only allows SMTP traffic from anywhere to my mail server.
> >
> > From anywhere to which mail server, the gateway, the vpn mail server or the
> > offsite access mail server?
>
> Thank you so much for your help. I have individual rules allowing
> incoming mail SMTP traffic to both my offsite and vpn mail servers. Then
> I added the Postfix mail gateway. I guess I can remove those rules now?
> Would SMTP_Auth be affected?
>
> Regards,
> Norman

I don't use smtp_auth so I can't answer that. I would assume if you block smtp
traffic then your users will not be able to authenticate with smtp_auth.
However... I had understood these machines were recieving spam/viruses from the
outside. This begs the question of how IF smtp_auth is enforced?

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