Forgive the top-post please, but I just wanted to thank all who responded to my question. I think all of my questions have been answered (for now), and I consider myself "enlightened", and... oh, where did I put that block diagram? :)
Best Regards, Jay [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >> Put another way: do I need the redirect with the pass rule for spamd? > > As others pointed out already, the answer to this is "yes". However, > since somewhen between 3.3 and -current, rdr also takes a "pass" > statement to make things shorter at the expense of not having all > "pass"es in the filtering section of your pf.conf anymore. So, instead > of using > > rdr inet proto tcp from <spamd> to any port smtp -> 127.0.0.1 port 8025 > > you might want to try (if you're using 3.4/-current) > > rdr pass on $ExtIF inet proto tcp from <spamd> to any port smtp -> \ > 127.0.0.1 port 8025 > > (I also put the ``on $ExtIF'' in since I doubt that the <spamd> table > contains spammers from within you LAN.) > > See the TRANSLATION chapter in pf.conf(5) for details.
