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SMTP Relaying AU
11/14/2006 8:16:01 AM
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Hello,

I have a dedicated Windows 2003 box with ISA 2004. It is pretty well
protected from external and internal threats in my oponion.

I have the security set to use SMTP Authentication for both Outbound and
Inbound connections.

I'd like to have more security besides this what can I do to achieve this?

I want to have layers of security of you get what I am saying, SMTP Auth is
one layer I want another I do not quite understand the concept of TLS and how
I will implnement it on the client and server side.

Your suggestions and comments are welcome.

Thanks,
Ashish

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AU
RE: SMTP Relaying AU
11/14/2006 9:44:01 AM
Actually now that I think of it I want to use my SMTP server as a smtp serer
and not a relay server how can I achieve this?
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AU
MCP, Network+, A+


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Re: SMTP Relaying Brian
11/19/2006 10:47:49 AM
Try reading:
http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsServer/en/library/8ffae10b-01ac-45ad-ab5f-1006b73a68dd1033.mspx?mfr=true
http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsServer/en/library/79b21824-0eee-46e6-8976-22a249daeb1c1033.mspx?mfr=true
Or any number of pages on MS website!

TLS is pretty much the same concept as SSL, it's just a newer protocol! Your
SMTP server has a certificate (issued either by an internal CA, or an
external one like Verisign), which the client uses to verify the SMTP server
is who it says it is, and you can also setup the clients with certificates
so the SMTP server can verify them. You could setup the SMTP server, so that
if the clients don't have a valid certificate, they can't connect (This gets
expensive if you don't have an internal CA to issue client certificates)
Take a look at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/829721

You might ant to give the braindumps a miss next time you go for a
certification!

Brian
MCSE 2000, 2003, CISSP, Security+, Network+, Server+


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