That's what I thought, but how will the valid (non-spam) packets get forwarded
from the spamd OpenBSD server to the Linux qmail server (both sitting on the
same DMZ network as you suggest) ?
----- Original Message -----
From:
carlopmart <carlopm...@gmail.com>
To: misc@openbsd.org
Cc:
Sent: Tuesday,
October 25, 2011 11:29 AM
Subject: Re: dedicating a server to spamd
On
10/25/2011 11:09 AM, ML mail wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am currently running spamd
on an OpenBSD firewall which does greylisting to protect a qmail linux mail
server on a DMZ and was wondering if it would be possible to have both tasks
(firewalling and spamd/greylisting) on two different physical machines so that
the firewall would just do packet filtering and another separate machine just
greylisting?
>
> The problem here what I see is that the dedicated greylisting
machine would have somehow to redirect IP addresses which are not on the
greylist to the mail server. As far as I know this is not possible with a
machine having only one NIC.
>
> Any ideas on recommendation on how to achieve
this?
>
> Regards,
> ML
>
Place another OpenBSD box on the DMZ area with
greylisting tasks ... On
the OpenBSD firewall side, do only packet filtering
...
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CL Martinez
carlopmart {at} gmail {d0t} com
