Re: Where to Place Email Gateway?

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From: Yogi (ybher_at_cox.net)
Date: 03/07/04 

Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2004 22:40:24 -0800

Thanks John. That's the answer I was looking for. So in
light of this, my original MX records (at the ISP)would
not have to be changed, but my hardware firewall port 25
would have to point to the gateway server IP instead of
the SBS WAN IP.

>-----Original Message-----
>In article <83ee01c403d3$5cb9a6b0$a501280a@phx.gbl>,
ybher@cox.net
>says...
>> Thanks for responding Tony,
>>
>> GFI MailEssentials can also be installed on a separate
>> machine...says the manual. But with the 2 NIC system
of
>> SBS2K3, I wanted to know if anyone actually configured
>> the mail/relay box with an IP address that coincides
with
>> the WAN NIC or with the LAN NIC. Either way, I'm
looking
>> at putting it in a DMZ.
>>
>
>The products are more flexible this way (gateway mode).
You should
>probably connect the gateway, assuming you don't do a
DMZ, on the
>192.168.2 network. Point port 25 to the gateway
obviously, and then
>forward mail from ME/MS to the SBS server's 192.168.2
address. An extra
>DMZ really isn't necessary since you are already
nat'ing - twice in
>fact.
>
>--
>John LeMay
>kc2kth
>Senior Technical Manager
>NJMC | http://www.njmc.com | Phone 732-557-4848
>.
>

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