RE: Q about mail proxy servers and setups

On Sun, 23 Sep 2007, Michael Scheidell wrote:

> For the purposes of this discussion, the biggest reason I can't be on
> the edge where Id like to be is that there is a massive proxy/load
> balancer/failover device that does more than email.
>
> Many firewalls 'proxy' the email also, so its not like you can take it
> out.

Is there any chance you can talk them into running a -transparent- SMTP proxy rather than a SMTP relay? It acts more like an ISO layer 2 bridge (but specific to SMTP traffic) so not to disturb the contents.

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