Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 23:48:16 -0000 From: "Jason Halbert" <res02jw5@gte.net> To: <questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Mail Servers Message-ID: <027801c06d3a$deacc810$17622104@next> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0012231502000.29768-100000@fremont.bolingbroke.com> <025501c06d39$9eee3a70$17622104@next>
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The evidence suggests that "Jason Halbert" wrote: > The evidence suggests that "Ken Bolingbroke" wrote: > > [snip] > > Presumably, your friends' ISPs already provide mail relay services > for > > their dialup. The easiest course of action is to have each of your > users > > use their own dial-up provider's mail relay for outgoing SMTP, even > if > > they use your mail server's POP for incoming mail. That way, you > don't > > need to worry about opening yourself up to abuse from anyone else > who > > shares the same ISPs as your users. > > > > The somewhat harder course of action would be to use SMTP AUTH, > which asks > > for a login and password before allowing relay, but the end-user's > client > > has to support it. > > > > Ken > > Yes... that is exactly what I would like to do. I am positive that > all my users are using Windows machines and just about all the Windows > mail readers (Outlook and Outlook Express, most likely) support SMTP > AUTH. I would even like to go further and use SPA (Secure Password > Authentication) for my SMTP, as well as my POP server, but I don't > know if that is supported by Sendmail. > > --- > Jason As I just tried to send the above message, the reason why I need my own SMTP server is appearent. My isp's SMTP server refused to relay the e-mail because of the sender's e-mail address... mine (jason@jason-n3xt.org). I am sorry that this thread has become so long, but there has to be a way to do what I need to do. =) I just need help finding it. Thanks as always... --- Jason jason@jason-n3xt.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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