mail server suggestions

[Yang Xiao]

On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 11:12:23 -0500, Yang Xiao <yxiao2004 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 09:34:46 -0500, John Aldrich <john at chattanooga.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> > On Thursday 11 November 2004 07:10 am, Daniel Chenard wrote:
> > > In the DMZ if you want access it from outside and accept mail from
> > > outside
> > >
> > Not necessarily... you can put it behind the firewall if you open up the
> > correct ports on your firewall so that ONLY mail traffic can get to/from the
> > server from outside. You may also want to allow port 80 if you plan to run a
> > webmail server or the https port (whatever that is.)
> >         John
> >
> >
> > 
> a typical settings is that you have a STMP gateway in the DMZ that
> accepts emails, do spam/virus checking, then forward it onto another
> box on the LAN so that users can access it.
> 
> Yang
> 
geez, bad hairday, I need to spellcheck more carefully.

yang