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Re: adding fetchmail to the mix?

From: mouss (usebsdfree.fr)
Date: Fri Oct 14 2005 - 08:52:56 CDT


S. Highlander a écrit :

>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.
>
>
No. that will only
- complicate your setup
- ~double your storage requirements
- require that you run a pop or imap server on your system.

>if so, could someone direct me to information on how to do this.
>
>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 .
>
>everything works fine.
>
>
>
so don't break it/him.
<ot> Who is "everything"? congratulate him for his work... </ot>