From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 5 17:36:15 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F32516A40A for ; Thu, 5 Apr 2007 17:36:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhorne@dfwlp.org) Received: from pollux.dfwlp.com (rrcs-64-183-212-242.sw.biz.rr.com [64.183.212.242]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E8EB13C489 for ; Thu, 5 Apr 2007 17:36:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhorne@dfwlp.org) Received: from pollux.dfwlp.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pollux.dfwlp.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l35Ha51l004694 for ; Thu, 5 Apr 2007 12:36:05 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from jhorne@dfwlp.org) Received: (from www@localhost) by pollux.dfwlp.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id l35Ha5f7004693; Thu, 5 Apr 2007 12:36:05 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from jhorne@dfwlp.org) X-Authentication-Warning: pollux.dfwlp.com: www set sender to jhorne@dfwlp.org using -f Received: from 192.168.125.142 (SquirrelMail authenticated user jhorne) by webmail.dfwlp.org with HTTP; Thu, 5 Apr 2007 12:36:04 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <56576.192.168.125.142.1175794565.squirrel@webmail.dfwlp.org> Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 12:36:04 -0500 (CDT) From: "Jonathan Horne" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.2 required=3.6 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.1.8 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.8 (2007-02-13) on pollux.dfwlp.com Subject: slightly OT - my freebsd email topology X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2007 17:36:15 -0000 currently, my email server is just a single box, accepting and sending emails from and to the internet. spamassassin and sendmail, and so far, it works satisfactory. i would like to change it up, so that i have a pair of servers doing MX from the internet, which then passes to an internal server for delivery. if i do that, i could remove spamassassin from the internal server, and run it on just the 2 external. all those configurations is really not my issue here... what im really pondering is how would external servers that are seperate from where the target mailboxes are, know which addressess are acceptable and which to return a 550? does anyone have any setups that are similar to this, and could advise me or point me in the right direction? thanks, jonathan