Using a DMZ for email?

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Author: David Mandala
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Subject: Using a DMZ for email?
The DMZ mail machine should simply store and forward the mail to the
internal machine, not receive it for the domain(s)

On Sat, 2002-08-31 at 17:58, Anthony Hologounis wrote:
> Hello
>
>
> I set up a DMZ to run http, smtp and ftp services external to my private
> network. Http and ftp seem to be pretty simple. I have some questions
> about SMTP.
>
> I have postfix running on the DMZ machine and it gets all of the mail
> external to me. My private/protected network has a mail server that I
> use to send mail. The INTERNAL network can pop/imap the mail from the
> DMZ machine but in order for me to do this the DMZ machine has to have
> the user name and password. This seems to be a security risk not to
> mention extra administration. I have to create users twice to make this
> work.
>
> Is there a better way to do this?
>
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> Anthony Hologounis
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