From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 18 06:42:05 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id GAA22353 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 18 Aug 1997 06:42:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from iquest3.iquest.net (iquest3.iquest.net [209.43.20.203]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id GAA22348 for ; Mon, 18 Aug 1997 06:42:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 19735 invoked from network); 18 Aug 1997 13:42:00 -0000 Received: from glider.iquest.net (HELO drifter.iquest.net) (198.70.144.56) by iquest3.iquest.net with SMTP; 18 Aug 1997 13:42:00 -0000 Message-ID: <33F85122.41C67EA6@iquest.net> Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1997 08:41:54 -0500 From: Jerry Kelley X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: sthaug@nethelp.no CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail on a firewall box References: <33F7C9E9.167EB0E7@iquest.net> <3599.871884758@verdi.nethelp.no> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk sthaug@nethelp.no wrote: > > > > > I just want one box that provides the services to my small LAN. I want > > that box to be the mail host for my company and also provide a > > firewall/proxy service. > > Sounds like you should buy a Whistle Interjet :-) (www.whistle.com) Yeah, well, the ISP's around here haven't even heard of the Interjet. Besides, it's not that economical. I can build a FreeBSD box and configure it for much less money! > > Anyway, given sendmail past history I'd feel very uncomfortable with > sendmail in any sort of security-related function. Why don't you look > at qmail (www.qmail.org) instead? This was written with security in > mind. Thanks for the tip. I'll look into it. It's interesting how some will say that it's OK to run sendmail on the firewall box and others will cringe at it! > > I hope by "Internet access point" you don't mean for users to actually > login to the firewall box? This is generally considered a bad idea. No. The box will be dedicated to providing Interjet-like services for my LAN. It will not be used by any users other than the administrator for administration. > > Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Jerry Kelley jerryk@iquest.net "Expectations are life's greatest dangers."