Okay, thank you for your input and I will ponder all that. What I DO NOT WANT, is yet another computer sucking up power here in the house. So I'll have to think about running a "virtual platform", such as VirtualBox by Sun/Oracle (I think that is what you mean) and putting the mail server over there.
In 2004 I used WindowsXP's VPC to set up a virtual machine on which I ran FreeBSD and a complete mail server with qmail. Felt rather otherworldly to be running everything on one box with CAT5 cables running from NIC-to-NIC on one machine. Just wanted to see if it could be done. Thanks again! On 9/8/2012 11:00 AM, [email protected] wrote: > You've got the right idea. Implementing it isn't trivial though, and I > wouldn't recommend putting all those eggs in one basket (on the same > host), unless you use a "virtual" platform to do so. > > I recommend you look into IPCop or pfSense for a firewall host. You can > put IPCop on an old PII or PIII host. It only takes 128M of ram, and a > 1G HDD would do fine. These distros are robust network service hosts > (router/firewall/vpn/dhcp - you name it). > > BL, you really don't want your mail server (or any server for that > matter) handling network security. Apply the KISS rule whenever possible. _______________________________________________ spamdyke-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.spamdyke.org/mailman/listinfo/spamdyke-users
