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Subject: Re: Microsoft SMTP Gateway
From: "Mark Norris" <mark @ uunet . uu . net>
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 1995 16:30:52 -0500
To: matt @ uts . EDU . AU (Jas (Matthew K)), BAIM @ itg . viacom . com (Bai Mario)
Cc: firewalls @ greatcircle . com (Firewalls Mailing List)

I have setup a SMTP gateway for MS-Mail and Qmail using a gateway
from Starnine.  The number is:  510.649.4949.  Gateway worked
well. 

Mark


> 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 
> -- 
> #!/bin/sh 
> echo '16i[q]sa[ln0=aln100%Pln100/snlbx]sbA0D3F204445524F42snlbxq'|dc;
> exit Matthew Keenan   Systems Programmer   Information Technology 
> Division 
>       University of Technology     Sydney Australia 
>  
> It's nice to be in a position where people apologize because they 
> assume there's humor in your work, based on past experience, but 
> they're not sure where it is. -- Rob Pike 
>  
>  


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