From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 27 17:47:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from whiterose.net (whiterose.net [199.245.105.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A70737B404 for ; Sat, 27 Jan 2001 17:47:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from ccrider2k (adsl-141-151-201-154.cptl.adsl.bellatlantic.net [141.151.201.154]) by whiterose.net (8.10.1/8.10.1) with SMTP id f0S1lcF04219; Sat, 27 Jan 2001 20:47:39 -0500 From: "Robert Myers" To: "'Michael T. Gray'" Cc: Subject: RE: Sendmail - relay-domains Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 20:44:50 -0500 Message-ID: <001a01c088cb$e7f69750$0201a8c0@ccrider2k> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 In-reply-To: <3A736789.E2BED871@nampa.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Hello, > The sendmail program has some safeguard to protect us against > spam. I found that for my users to send mail, I must have a > 'relay-domains' file. This seems to track the domain they are coming > from rather than the domain of their email > Some of my users travel and would like to use a friends dialup > numbers to get their email. Can I change the spam protection to allow > this without giving everyone spamming rights? You have several options, all of which present their own set of issues. First off is SMTP AUTH, which not all clients support (most of the major ones do) For more info see: http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/auth.html Second is Pop before SMTP, for which there is no standard, more info at: http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/roaming.html HTH, and Good luck Robert Myers Systems Administrator White Rose Internet Service http://whiterose.net (717)439-1478 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message