On 9/26/02, R. Scott Perry penned: >The external IP from the firewall *is* your MX record. :) > >Internally, your mailserver has a private IP, such as 192.168.0.1. >That's all it knows about. When it sends an E-mail to another >server (mail.declude.com for example), the firewall translates the >192.168.0.1 to your public IP address. When mail.declude.com sends >you mail back, it looks up your MX record, which leads us to your >public IP address. Your firewall then translates that public IP >address back to 192.168.0.1.
What about internally, say from a mail script on a web page. Will it bounce off of the external IP and back into the internal network? -- Bud Schneehagen - Tropical Web Creations _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ ColdFusion Solutions / eCommerce Development [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.twcreations.com/ 954.721.3452 To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
