On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 08:45:51AM +1000, Paul Gear wrote:
> 
> My understanding of SMTP submission was that 587 was intended to be open
> normally only on the loopback interface (i.e. it's used for submitting
> mail from the local machine).
> 
I don't think that is right.  The relevant RFC [0] never mentions
loopback or that it is only meant for submitting from the local machine. 

> DNATing from port 25 outgoing to port 26 on a specific server seems like
> a reasonable thing to do (although possibly less secure than using a
> local mail relay and pushing SMTP traffic through a VPN link).
> 
> Jérôme, if you decide to do it this way, DNAT is what you will need,
> since REDIRECT only redirects to ports on the firewall itself.
> 

Regards,

-Roberto

[0] http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2476.html

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Roberto C. Sánchez
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