IPFW SMTP and DNS Proxies

Merton Campbell Crockett mcc at CATO.GD-AIS.COM
Wed Aug 10 15:59:47 UTC 2005


On Wed, 10 Aug 2005, Brad Knowles wrote:

> At 7:09 AM -0700 2005-08-10, Merton Campbell Crockett wrote:
> 
> > Recently, the system began attempting to deliver mail directly to the
> > target system rather than relay through the BSD/OS 4.3.1 system.  Does
> > anyone have or know of an SMTP proxy that would allow the BSD/OS 4.3.1
> > system to "fake" being the intended mail exchange system?
> 
> 	You could change your firewall system so as to silently redirect all
> outgoing SMTP sessions to the BSD/OS server and only allow SMTP connections
> from the BSD/OS server to pass through.  Then you wouldn't need to make any
> other changes on the BSD/OS server in this area.
> 
> 	However, this is totally unrelated to the DNS or BIND.  I'd encourage
> you to find a newsgroup or mailing list that is specific to your hardware
> platform, or one that is oriented towards the SMTP MTA that you're using, and
> ask for further assistance there.

Brad, et. al.:

Obviously, mind and fingers weren't synchronised this morning.  This was 
intended for another list.


Merton Campbell Crockett



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