Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 14:48:04 -0500 From: Joel Dinel <dinjo@touchtunes.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Mail server scenario Message-ID: <20020102144804.A364@sunder.touchtunes.com>
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This one's probably aimed at the experienced mail admin out there. This is not stricly FreeBSD-related, but since a lot of intelligent people read/post here (yes, I am kissing major ass!) I'm sure I'll get a solution by the end of the week. <Deep breath> I need to setup a (new) mail server for a small LAN. This particular setup is a bit complicated, because a lot of the users travel, and use different ISP accounts depending on where they are (Europe, Asia, US). Right now, the mail server to be replaced is running sendmail on Linux, with open relays (yes, I know). I'm planning on migrating it to FreeBSD , running Postfix. I chose Postfix because I know it, and it's simple to configure/maintain. Obviously, I don't want this new server to openly relay everything. It'll relay for the lan (192.168.), and for travelling users. The big picture here is that I don't know the IP of the "roaming" user X in advance. I'd need to be able to pick up a laptop, head to China, get a local ISP account and send mail through this particular mail server. The clients that do so all run Win98/Win2k/WinNT. The mail server is behind a firewall, that also acts as a VPN gateway. The VPN client software that we use is Win32 based. So far, I thought about a possible use of the VPN client to get the mail, but connections still appear as outside, routable IPs to the mail server. I've also got the whole "smtp through a SSH tunnel" thing in my head, but I don't have enough experience with that scenario to know if it will solve my problem. Any suggestions are welcomed. Thanks in advance, -- Joel Dinel GnuPG key : http://darkhost.mine.nu:81/~joel/mykey.asc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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