RE: How do folks firewall MS Exchange?

From: Desai, Ashish (Ashish.Desaiat_private)
Date: Tue Oct 12 1999 - 13:42:29 PDT

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    Have you thought about using Outlook web access. Its a kludge but can be
    secured
    as you just have to deal with allowing 443 in. You can use a Netscape
    reverse proxy on UNIX
    as a jump point in the middle if you are uncomfortable with sending clients
    directly to IIS.
    
    Ashish Desai
    Fidelity Investments
    
    > -----Original Message-----
    > From:	Dan Schlitt [SMTP:schlittat_private]
    > Sent:	Thursday, October 07, 1999 3:38 PM
    > To:	firewall-wizardsat_private
    > Subject:	How do folks firewall MS Exchange?
    > 
    > 
    > How do folks work access to an MS Exchange server through a firewall?
    > 
    > We are under pressure to install MS Exchange in our mixed unix/NT
    > environment and allow access from outside our local network.
    > 
    > I checked the archives and didn't find anything that helped me.
    > 
    > Currently we limit outside access from the Internet to ssh to a unix host.
    > Port forwarding makes it possible to do all of the things that have been
    > required in the past. But now the folks on the sales side of the company
    > want to have MS Exchange installed so they can use its calendaring and
    > other functions.
    > 
    > We have attempted to use the port forwarding to make exchange work and we
    > have also tried Lotus Notes. No luck. Maybe we have missed something. This
    > would be our preferred approach.
    > 
    > So we are now looking for a firewall solution to this problem. Have any of
    > you our there encountered this problem. How did you solve it?
    > 
    > Thanks.
    > 
    > /dan
    > 
    > -- 
    > 
    > Dan Schlitt
    > schlittat_private
    > 
    



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