1 | 3COM EMAIL FIREWALL OVERVIEW |
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This chapter provides an overview of the 3Com Email Firewall and its features, and includes the following topics:
| ■ | Deployment and Installation |
| ■ | Features |
| ■ | System Administration |
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Deployment and | The 3Com Email Firewall is designed to be situated between your mail | |
Installation | servers and the Internet so that there are no direct SMTP (Simple Mail | |
| Transport Protocol) connections between external and internal servers. | |
The 3Com Email Firewall is installed behind the existing firewall on the
Internal network.
Inbound mail will be forwarded from the Firewall or Router to the 3Com Email Firewall where it will be scanned, processed, and then sent to your internal mail server for delivery.
Outbound mail will be sent from your internal mail server to the 3Com Email Firewall to be scanned, processed, and then delivered to the destination SMTP server on the Internet.
