Use the SMTP Gateway on the DMZ. It's pretty painless to set up and it works great. IIS SMTP forwarding in Win2K is super quick to config. If you want even better failsafe email, tell your ISP to store-forward your email that way in the event of a loss-of-service between your ISP and your email server all mail will be stored and forwarded when the link comes back up. Any ISP worth it's routers should be able to do this. Works great for me.
Marc -----Original Message----- From: Rick Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 1:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: SMTP through firewall I wanted to get the opinion of the list regarding my email setup. I'm wondering what the pro's and con's are of allowing my mail server (Groupwise) access through my firewall to send mail vs. using a SMTP relay in the DMZ. We use FW1 on a Nokia and there are about 125 mail users. We don't host our own DNS (forward out to ISP). The DMZ SMTP server would be W2K running W2K SMTP service ('cause we already own it). We also run Trend Micro Viruswall and use CVP for the incoming mail. I'd appreciate any thoughts on the good/bad of this set up. We're short on staff and trying to keep things as simple as possible. Thanks. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Great stuff seeking new owners in Yahoo! Auctions! http://auctions.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Firewalls mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnac.net/mailman/listinfo/firewalls _______________________________________________ Firewalls mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnac.net/mailman/listinfo/firewalls
