On 2 Jan 2002 at 8:51, Len Conrad wrote:

>
> >What are people's viws on SMTP Proxies?
>
> I've come to the position that you should not be a mail admin if you run
> your mailbox server as MX host. :))
>
> >Should you use one? If not, what functionality do you lose?
>
> none.
>
> I've been running IMGate (my sig) for nearly two years now. and several
> 100 other orgs have adopted it. I have nothing but extremely positive
> reports.
>
> 90% reduction in abuse,
> reduction in mail infections(with out,
> isolating the mailbox server from DoS'es,
>
> increase in mailbox server zippiness due to offloading of:
>
> SMTP dialog with internet MTA's
> DNS lookups
> mail re-deliveries/queueing
> bounce processing
>
> Len
>

This information is extremely useful.
Although IMGate looks good i did not really want to install another OS.

I was looking at Delegate as a proxy server (for SMTP and POP3) but
might just use postfix as a quasi- smtp proxy.

cheers,

adrian

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