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echo: nthelp
to: Geo.
from: Tim Boyer
date: 2003-11-18 19:04:18
subject: Re: Is this of any help to ISP`s?

From: Tim Boyer 

On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 06:24:55 -0500, "Geo."  wrote:

>"Tim Boyer"  wrote in message
>news:et2jrv4mbp678icsiqbl8sqr15qg42ggp5{at}4ax.com...
>
>> I've got two Sendmail Commercial boxes feeding into a central mail
>> server (yeah, it's ridiculous overkill.  Long story.).  Anyway, that
>> means that the outside servers _never_ check for unknown users.  It
>> takes the mail, does the blacklist checks, and hands it off to the dg
>> server on the inside.  The dg server, on the other hand,  doesn't do
>> any blacklist checking at all, but does do all the unknown user
>> checking.
>
>Which server does the outbound?
>
>Geo.
>

The internal dg box.

Outbound mail goes straight from the internal dg server out.  Inbound mail
goes to the two Linux boxes on the outside, and get delivered internally to
the dg box.  That way, there's no direct connection to the dg box from the
outside world.


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Tim Boyer
tim{at}denmantire.com

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