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Re: adding fetchmail to the mix?
From: Robert Felber (r.felber
ek-muc.de)
Date: Fri Oct 14 2005 - 08:46:52 CDT
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On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 08:32:33AM -0500, S. Highlander wrote:
> good afternoon all,
>
> question: i am wondering if my mail system would be a little more secure if
> instead of forwarding mail from my gateway machine to my internal mail
> server, i used a program like fetchmail on the internal mail server to pick
> up mail from the gateway machine.
>
> i have an email gateway, named dmz, and an intranet mail server, named
> internal, set up as described below. i set up both servers using
> instructions from the following document:
> http://www.postfix.org/STANDARD_CONFIGURATION_README.html#firewall .
Why should a cleartext protocol (POP) be more secure than the option of
forwarding mail from the gateway to internal vial SMTP TLS/SSL? Unless there
are POP TLS/SSL implementations.
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Robert Felber (PGP: 896CF30B)
Munich, Germany
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