On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 12:21:01PM -0500, Douglas J Hunley wrote: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >Roger Oberholtzer spewed electrons into the ether that resembled: >> Is it possible to have a machine that is available externally >> (a firewall-type box) run an imapd that can access an imapd >> running on an internal box? I want to make my imap maildir on an >> internal machine available, via a linux 'firewall', to a computer >> not on the internal network. >> >> My internal imapd is Courier. The firewall box is running nothing >> yet. >> >> Just a pointer to get me started would be great. > >you're over-complicating. just do a port forward on the firewall to the >internal IMAP server
This works quite well (we only forward the ssl-enabled ports though, not the plain text ones). We have a webmail interface available using https connecting to a server running IMP. The user can select from a list of IMAP servers/Domain combinations at the IMP login screen, and these can be on systems on the private network or via an ipsec VPN tunnel available to the webmail server. This also works with boxes like the LinkSys BEFVP41 VPN boxes. We forward ssh, smtp, http, etc. through to internal *ix boxes (I've never tried their ``DMZ'' mode which forward everything throuth to one internal box). Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ My brother sent me a postcard the other day with this big satellite photo of the entire earth on it. On the back it said: ``Wish you were here''. -- Steven Wright _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
