Another way to do this is with an IPSec gateway. This would bridge the two networks and make it very similar to sending an email from within your network at work. However this becomes a little more detailed, esp. if you don't have access to the servers at work.
Joey -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:leaf-user-admin@;lists.sourceforge.net]On Behalf Of Erich Titl Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 12:37 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [leaf-user] Dachstein - port forward SMTP? Hi James handling mail services is a bit off topic here, you will get detailed information concerning mail and DNS on the respective forums, if you get everything set up you won't have to use an ip address anymore, please don't forget the open relay topic. Have fun Erich James Duberg wrote the following at 19:27 23.10.2002: >Erich, thanks for your comments. > >What I mean by "internal" or "local" vs. "external" is this. Up until this >point, if I wanted to send an email message from home to Jennifer at work, >I would send it to her email address with the ISP, for example >"[EMAIL PROTECTED]", so it would go to the Cox SMTP server then to her >Inbox. When I am at work and want to send a message to her, I just send it >to "jenn@[192.168.1.210]" and it goes straight into her Inbox on the >office IMAP server, without ever going outside the firewall. > >I would like to be able to send messages to her in the same fashion from >home, and therefore started thinking about poking a hole in the firewall >for the SMTP protocol and port forwarding it to the office IMAP server. > >Anyway, I think I'll give it a try and see what happens. THINK Püntenstrasse 39 8143 Stallikon mailto:erich.titl@;think.ch PGP Fingerprint: BC9A 25BC 3954 3BC8 C024 8D8A B7D4 FF9D 05B8 0A16 ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Influence the future of Java(TM) technology. Join the Java Community Process(SM) (JCP(SM)) program now. http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?sunm0002en ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Influence the future of Java(TM) technology. Join the Java Community Process(SM) (JCP(SM)) program now. http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?sunm0002en ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
