> I'm wondering is there a means of allowing users to pop a
> mailbox on one
> server from another?
>> The problem is we have a server, called box1 for the purposes of
> illustration ;), that accepts incoming mail (relayed via MX
> records), and
> sits behind a firewall, without port 25 or 110 accessible
> from the internet.
>> We've set up a server, box2, with port 25 and 110 open, and
> thats acting as
> our outgoing mail relay at the moment. So would it be
> possible for users to
> pop their mail accounts on box1 by going through box2.
You could use something like aproxy (search freshmeat) to proxy port 110.
This is proxying is in no way protocol specific - it just listens on a port
on box2 and when someone connects, it opens a connection to box1 on a
specific port and passes the data back and forth between the connections
without processing the application data in any way. I'm sure there are
other utilities to do the same but aproxy works fine for me for pop/ssl.
You asked whether its possible to do this - it obviously also depends on the
firewall situation between box1 and box2...
jr
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