From: S. Highlander (fsbntwsdb.com)
Date: Fri Oct 14 2005 - 08:55:47 CDT

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Felber" <r.felberek-muc.de>
To: <postfix-userspostfix.org>
Sent: Friday, October 14, 2005 8:46 AM
Subject: Re: adding fetchmail to the mix?

> 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.
>
>

indeed! thanks for straightening me out.

stu

i am sorry robert for replying off list.

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