From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 2 7:43:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fremont.bolingbroke.com (adsl-216-102-90-210.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [216.102.90.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 557A237B7CB for ; Thu, 2 Mar 2000 07:43:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ken@bolingbroke.com) Received: from localhost (ken@localhost) by fremont.bolingbroke.com (Pro-8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA37597 for ; Thu, 2 Mar 2000 07:43:43 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 07:43:43 -0800 (PST) From: Ken Bolingbroke X-Sender: ken@fremont.bolingbroke.com To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: To relay or not to relay mail. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Taking that approach, you need to allow every ISP used by your users to relay through your mail server. You need to change it when they change ISPs. And you run the risk of other dialups at the same ISPs abusing your mail server. I prefer the approach of telling my users to set their SMTP server to mail.ISP.net, and set their POP server to my mail server. That way there's no relaying issues for me, because their mail is relayed through their ISP (as it should be), and they retrieve their mail from me. Makes life much easier all around... Ken Bolingbroke hacker@bolingbroke.com On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Mark Daniel Szlaga wrote: > Greetings > I am hosting a domain for my fiancee's family. The problem that I am seeing > is that sendmail will bounce a message with a relay failure unless the machine > is in the /etc/mail/sendmail.cw file. For my fiancee's family I cannot do this > because they rely on dynamic IP dialup to get a connection to the internet. Is > there a way that I can turn off the anti-relay feature for a specific domain or > block of IP's? > Is there something that I am doing wrong? Something that I can do to fix > this? > > Thanks, > Mark Szlaga > mark@szlaga.net > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message