Re: ??: [Exim] Exim as transparent "proxy"?

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Author: Torsten Mueller
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CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: ??: [Exim] Exim as transparent "proxy"?
Hey,

swhite@??? schrieb:
>
> On 30 Nov 2001, at 16:51, Sergey Matveychuk wrote:
>
> > I see no troubles to do it. Just direct all SMTP traffic to server you want.
> > Needness of special HTTP transparent proxy explains by need to save
> > destination IP address of connection. For SMTP destination IP is not
> > important.
>
> Not quite - transparency is needed if an SMTP server on a host
> with IP address of, say, 10.1.1.1 is to intercept a SMTP session
> destined for, say, 123.234.45.6 (**gross.oversimplification.alert**)


Why don't you use IP-Masquerading for port 21 ?

This could be for your intranet a transparent solution, you
don't
need to modify DNS or build a "transparent-exim".

Intranet MTA -> IP-Masquerading -> Internet-MTA

If the machine, where you do the IP-Masquerading has an
Internet-IP
you should have no problems.

But only my 2 cents

Torsten