* Hal Klingsporn <hal@retrotech.org> [20030309 06:26 PST]: > > On Saturday, March 8, 2003, at 09:58 PM, Gary Turner wrote: > > >Hal wrote: > > > >>I'm using Woody as a firewall with NAT to protect a small network that > >>includes a mail and web server on an unregistered (192.168....) > >>network. I'd like to configure the fw so that it can send mail alerts > >>to the users via the mail server on the protected net. If I set > >>exim.conf to preclude all local machine delivery (i.e. force remote > >>delivery) > > > >Why would you do that? How do your local (intranet) users get their > >mail? > > > Mail to/from users on the local net are handled by a mail (exim) server > inside the firewall. This works very well. The only issue is getting > machine generated mail from the fw to the internal mail server. > Disabling local delivery (local to the firewall) forces exim on the > firewall to look for the appropriate mail server. > > >> > >>Any suggestions on how to tell the firewall to send mail to the > >>internal mail server? Is it an exim or firewall config issue? Well, both, I think. I'd recommend you use a strictly internal domain (i.e. .internal or .lan, not .myinternetname.com) for your internal hosts. Then, set your firewall to use this internal domain as its qualify_domain, and it should know that the default mail server for that internal domain is the internal name of your internal mail server. Make sense? good times, Vineet -- http://www.doorstop.net/ -- #include<stdio.h> int main() { puts("Reader! Think not that \n" "technical information \n" "ought not be called speech;"); return 0; }
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