On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 06:00:46PM +1000, Adrian Bolzan wrote:

> My boss has asked me to minimise contact between the internet and the
> internal network (understandable).

For that, you can use Postfix as "quasi"-SMTP proxy.

> Regarding e-mail, he thought that a smtp proxy would assist in this,
> although I realised that (a) it would be another server that could fail,
> need maintainance, etc.; and (b) postfix is very secure, as is linux (or
> can be).

Well, you COULD use OpenBSD instead :)

> sounds good, and this will fit in well with our new anti-virus set up.

Be sure not to expose the SMTP listener of the Antivirus gateway
directly to the internet.

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