Well, I see no reason to have a MTA running on a public IP. As stated above in the thread, as long as your server is HELO'ing out as the name associated with the PTR record for its SRC-NAT, then you should be fine.
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Roman Gelfand <rgelfa...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Stan Hoeppner <s...@hardwarefreak.com> wrote: >> Ralf Hildebrandt put forth on 11/27/2009 6:20 AM: >> >>> Then it of course needs a publich IP addresses >> >> Or, at least, a public IP NAT/PAT'd to it by your firewall. It will >> also obviously need PTR, A, and MX records. >> >> Also, this may be helpful: >> >> http://www.postfix.org/STANDARD_CONFIGURATION_README.html#firewall >> > > I am at a loss here. This article seems to say that it is possible, I > mean in the way it was designed to run, to run postfix in NATed > network. In this case, is there still a reason why I would want to > run postfix on public ip machine? > > Thanks again >> -- >> Stan >> > >
