On Wednesday 21 April 2004 11:10, Henry Tang wrote:
hi,
Anyone have a ruleset for sendmail where a person not using the network connection (x) to use (x)'s sendmail to sendmail out to people not within the network (x).
So currently a person using aol or netzero that use (x)'s smtp server can sendmail to people within the (x)'s network but can not sendmail out side the network.
I am thinking maybe a person outside a network will have to check their email before they sendmail out utlizing network's smtp server.. is that possible?
henry
What you describe is the norm, outside users can NOT use your sendmail except to send mail to YOU or someone who has an account on your machine. There are several ways to allow this, 1) Open Relay (which will get you suspended from your service provider and shut down very quickly as your machine will become a spam relay. Don't do this, Don't even think about it. 2) pop-auth where you set up your sendmail to authorize sending mail for anyone that does a POP request immediatly prior to sending 3) SMTP Auth, which means your mail user agent (kmail, Eudora, even (gag) outlook has to log into the smtp server before it is allowed to send. The last one is the best, and it can be a bit of a struggle to get it working because of some ambiguities in the docs. I'm hopeing SuSE 9.1 makes this much easier, cuz it took me 3 days in 8.2. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen