Re: MSexhange5.5 & Proxy 2.0!!

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From: Jon Grieve
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 00:00

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Chris,

> If I don't turn the packet filtering on, it leaves my system wide open to
> attack.

Could you expand on that please.  I'm not sure I fully understand the
implications of what this option is for.

My understand -- probably wrong -- was that you could use this to control
inbound connections, should you choose to open up various ports - for
example, if your mail or Web server were 'behind' the proxy.

Jon

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