On Thursday 19 May 2005 06:11 pm, Ruben Safir wrote:
Its better to use STARTLS if you need to allow relaying from external machines thru your mail server.
How do you recieve external mail then?
Ruben
Relaying is defined as accepting mail for relay to someone not having a local mail account. Such as me sending mail thru your machine to my friend in France. Me sending mail to your machine to Your Mailbox is not relaying. Outbound mail is relaying. Someone on your local network sends mail thru your machine to his friend in France. Clearly the friend in France has no mail account on your machine. Therefore, the source (sender) has to be specifically authorized to send via your machine. That's why the lines: 192.168 RELAY are needed. (where 192.168 is merely an example here). Now you on your laptop on vacation want to send mail. But you don't have an account at in Iceland where you like to go on vacation, so how do you send mail? You could use AOL, but that would suck. You can't open your server to accept connections from just anywhere because every spammer in the world would own your machine. So you install something like STARTLS to authorize specific connections that are able to authenticate themselves to your mail server in order to be authorized to send mail thru your server where ever you are. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen