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Date:      Sun, 13 Jan 2002 20:17:22 -0500 (EST)
From:      Chris BeHanna <behanna@zbzoom.net>
To:        <security@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: smtpproxy
Message-ID:  <20020113201536.G76617-100000@topperwein.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020112005425.GA69702@pc5.abc>

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On Sat, 12 Jan 2002, Nicolas Rachinsky wrote:

> I'm looking for a smtpproxy or something similar to accept mails via
> smtp on the firewall and forward them to the internal sendmail.
>
> It should be as simple as possible, there would be very low traffic
> some mails per day (some mails per hour maximum). And there should no
> exploitable bugs, of course ;-)
>
> I'm looking for such a thing because I don't want to expose the
> internal sendmail to the bad outside world.

    You will lose the anti-spam capabilities of sendmail in the
process.  To me, those are of considerable value.

    Others have pointed out postfix, smtpd, smapd, and the like.  If
you're really hard-up and don't like any of those, then you need to
write your own smtpd.  In concept it's easy, but getting it tight and
secure is the hard part.

-- 
Chris BeHanna
Software Engineer                   (Remove "bogus" before responding.)
behanna@bogus.zbzoom.net
I was raised by a pack of wild corn dogs.


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