On Mon, October 17, 2005 11:36 pm, Graham Toal said: > > I want to build a spam appliance... it will run an application which > accepts SMTP connections, opens its own connection to a back-end MTA, > and acts as an application relay in real time, forwarding the SMTP > exchange (not at the packet level) from the incoming connection to > the MTA, while possibly making some changes to the data being forwarded.
Just as a random thought... Is it possible to run this on an IP-less box? Put it in between the MTA's, rdr SMTP to the local box on the internal interface, and work from there? It would take some carefully crafted rdr rules, but it sounds like an avenue to look at... Daniel T. Staal --------------------------------------------------------------- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use the contents for non-commercial purposes. This copyright will expire 5 years after the author's death, or in 30 years, whichever is longer, unless such a period is in excess of local copyright law. ---------------------------------------------------------------
