Philip Hazel (ph10@???) said, in message
<Pine.SOL.4.58.0312051343330.18857@???>:
>
> There are plenty of similar configurations where outgoing mail servers
> send out mail to the world but won't accept incoming mail connections from
> outside their borders. And what about people using NAT and load-sharing
> hardware and stuff like that? One IP address may well not correspond to
> one box.
Example: aber.ac.uk. All mail from our users' MUAs goes through
smtphost.aber.ac.uk while all inbound mail from outside comes through
mailserv.aber.ac.uk. The latter has all our spam scanning.
Cheers,
Alun.
--
Alun Jones auj@???
Systems Support, (01970) 62 2494
Information Services,
University of Wales, Aberystwyth