Good day,
We've just started an email project at work and a comment that
came from out internet connector (I don't know whether provider is
quite the correct way to put it in our case) is that having a
seperate incoming and a separate outgoing SMTP server is better
security wise.
Now is this a very sendmail centric problem or would you consider
this a wise idea no matter what ? Thinking in terms of how exim
can work, with one daemon listening on port 25 and a cron job
running exim every so often to send out messages or having exim
run a seperate runner process using -q, this problem may be
completely irrelevant to exim, but having used smail and then exim
for the last cuople of years I cannot say what the differences are
between sendmail and exim, and exactly what problems could occur
with a combined incoming/outgoing server ?
Could anyone hazard a guess at this - have there been problems
with sendmail in the past which have required splitting, problems
that don't affect exim ?
Thank you for any help,
Sincerely,
Adrian Phillips
PS. Offtopic - does anyone have experience with M$ Exchange or
Netscape Message Center that would be willing (in private email) to
let me know of any problems (giving me ammunition against using them
:-)
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