On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 01:35:16PM -0700, scott wrote:
> I'm looking for a Linux-based POP mail proxy to put in my company's DMZ
> to field requests from sales personnel running POP clients on the
> Internet. The mail these folks need would be on a MS Exchange 5.5
> server, inside on the LAN. I don't want to open ports on the firewall
> directly into the Exchange server - rather, I want to add an extra layer
> or buffer of security between Exchange and that big bad Net (and I'm not
> confident it is a secure enough product anyway). So I'm wondering if
> qpopper can fill the bill. I would need to have qpopper use my internal
> Active Directory to authenticate users, and allow them to pick up their
> POP mail from the Exchange server. Has anyone done a config like this,
> or can anyone offer suggestions on using qpopper in this way?
Popper can deliver the mail to the user, but it is not a proxy; it
includes no features for getting the mail from Exchange to its own
server. You could do this with a program such as fetchmail, I suppose,
but I am not sure this combination really does what you want.
-- Clifton
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