Re: [hylafax-users] where to run hylafax

["John Darrington" <john@cellform.com.au>]

On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 02:37:02PM -0600, Aaron P. Martinez wrote:
     Hi.
     
     I want to run hylafax on my firewall machine, it's the only one with isa
     slots that take my modem.  

For 20 USD you could buy a new PCI modem.
     
     I was intending on only running things like iptables, spam assain, and
     hylafax on it.  After reading the documentation and realizing that i
     need an mta running on the machine, i'm a little more skeptical about my
     decision.  Is there any way to specify a remote MTA, i run a postfix
     server in the dmz?  Also, if the aforementioned answer is no, do i need
     to have any ports open to the outside?  

I'm sure there would be a way to use a remove MTA, but I've never had
to do it, so I can't comment.  I can't see any reason why hylafax
needs you to open ports to the outside (unless of course you want to
be able to retrieve faxes remotely).


If it really turns out to be necessary to have a local MTA, then you
could consider using ssmtp.  It's extremly trivial to configure. You'd
just need to point it to your main MTA.



From a purely philosophical point of view, I would say that the
firewall is the `right' place to have your modem.  It is after all an
external interface to your network . . . 

J'
     
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