I think they don't wanna take any risk and loop it through an internal connection. No outside one at all.
Under that aspect I see a relay being useful. It can deal with nasty stuff instead of the important machine on the LAN. Could be a security requirement in the company, maybe PCI compliance ;-) Cheers, Sebastian > On 31.07.2014, at 20:08, Eric Shubert <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 07/31/2014 10:30 AM, Sebastian Grewe wrote: >> I think the mail server is not connected to the internet and does not handle >> "public domain" emails. It only handled email tragic internally. So the >> cloud app needs a way "in" and the idea is to use a simple public mta that >> accepts the mail as-is and passes it on to the internal server which >> delivers to the user(s). >> >> I think a simple mail relay will do the trick allowing traffic from that one >> IP. >> >> Cheers, >> Sebastian > > I see. I believe you're correct. > > Why bother with the relay though? The intranet mail host could be configured > to accept external email only from the cloud host, as well as intranet > connections. Simply modify the tcp.smtp file accordingly. No? > > -- > -Eric 'shubes' > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
