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Subject: Re: Microsoft SMTP Gateway
From: matt @ uts . EDU . AU (Jas (Matthew K))
Date: Sat, 1 Apr 1995 04:11:46 +1000 (EST)
To: BAIM @ itg . viacom . com (Bai Mario)
Cc: firewalls @ greatcircle . com (Firewalls Mailing List)
In-reply-to: <2F7C3CB5 @ SMTPGATE . VIACOM . COM> from "Bai, Mario" at Mar 31, 95 09:29:00 am

Bai, Mario wrote this...
> 
> 
> Has anyone ever implemented Microsoft's SMTP gateway for MS-Mail?
> Both Microsoft and our mail people here swear that it is unbreakable, 
> (nothing is unbreakable)
> but I was wondering if anyone has ever implemented it or discovered any 
> "holes". The machine sits on both our unprotected side to receive mail from 
> the internet, translates the internet addresses to MS-Mail addresses, and 
> shoots them off to our mail MTA. Since it is dual -homed, I do not feel 
> comfortable, but do not have any real data to support my paranoid feeling. 
> If anyone has seen any problems, or know of anything, I would appreciate 
> hearing about it.
> Mario Bai
> 
well if its anything like microsoft's own mail gateway expect about
20% mail lossage (these are recent figures i have got mailing a friend
in microsoft).

			Matt
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Matthew Keenan   Systems Programmer   Information Technology Division
      University of Technology     Sydney Australia

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