Re: firewalling, imap, DMZ's etc.

2006-10-18 Thread Adam D
Joe wrote: > George Borisov wrote: >> Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >>> 1. use my smoothwall box as is, portforward IMAP to my server and run >>>with it. potential problems are that my LAN, behind smoothwall, is >>>pretty loosey goosey and I run a pretty good risk of being >>>compromised

Re: firewalling, imap, DMZ's etc.

2006-10-18 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 02:02:30AM -0700, Adam D wrote: > Just as I pressed send I forgot that I wanted to mention about the Debian > firewall mailing list. The list is: debian-firewall@lists.debian.org It is > accessible on the mailing lists section on: > http://www.us.debian.org/MailingList

Re: firewalling, imap, DMZ's etc.

2006-10-18 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 11:28:04AM +0100, Joe wrote: > George Borisov wrote: > > It depends how sophisticated you want to be: you can also > forget IMAP, and use mutt over ssh, or even cat and the > sendmail command if you ssh to the machine hosting the mail. > That really won't leave much of a fo

Re: firewalling, imap, DMZ's etc.

2006-10-18 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 01:48:49AM -0700, Adam D wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 07:20:31PM -0700, Adam D wrote: > >> Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > >>> Hi list, I need some advice. My work situation has changed such that I > >>> now have to get out of my chair and

Re: firewalling, imap, DMZ's etc.

2006-10-18 Thread George Borisov
Joe wrote: > I'd go along with that. I run sshd on a non-standard port, to > avoid the automated attacks, and forward IMAP to the remote > machine. Since it's normally a Windows one, I have puTTY and > my encrypted private key on a USB drive, and configure Outlook > or Outlook Express to talk to m

Re: firewalling, imap, DMZ's etc.

2006-10-18 Thread Joe
George Borisov wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: 1. use my smoothwall box as is, portforward IMAP to my server and run with it. potential problems are that my LAN, behind smoothwall, is pretty loosey goosey and I run a pretty good risk of being compromised. especially because i"m runn

Re: firewalling, imap, DMZ's etc.

2006-10-18 Thread Adam D
Just as I pressed send I forgot that I wanted to mention about the Debian firewall mailing list. The list is: debian-firewall@lists.debian.org It is accessible on the mailing lists section on: http://www.us.debian.org/MailingLists/subscribe A good place for more specific and future help. -A

Re: firewalling, imap, DMZ's etc.

2006-10-18 Thread George Borisov
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > 1. use my smoothwall box as is, portforward IMAP to my server and run >with it. potential problems are that my LAN, behind smoothwall, is >pretty loosey goosey and I run a pretty good risk of being >compromised. especially because i"m running a not-up-t

Re: firewalling, imap, DMZ's etc.

2006-10-18 Thread Adam D
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 07:20:31PM -0700, Adam D wrote: >> Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >>> Hi list, I need some advice. My work situation has changed such that I >>> now have to get out of my chair and climb out of my basement at >>> frequent but irregular intervals.

Re: firewalling, imap, DMZ's etc.

2006-10-17 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 07:20:31PM -0700, Adam D wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > Hi list, I need some advice. My work situation has changed such that I > > now have to get out of my chair and climb out of my basement at > > frequent but irregular intervals. I live by email and need to con

Re: firewalling, imap, DMZ's etc.

2006-10-17 Thread Adam D
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > Hi list, I need some advice. My work situation has changed such that I > now have to get out of my chair and climb out of my basement at > frequent but irregular intervals. I live by email and need to connect > to my email and possibly my desktop from multiple locatio

firewalling, imap, DMZ's etc.

2006-10-17 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
Hi list, I need some advice. My work situation has changed such that I now have to get out of my chair and climb out of my basement at frequent but irregular intervals. I live by email and need to connect to my email and possibly my desktop from multiple locations. So, obviously, IMAP to the rescu