From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 23 15:48:40 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 23 15:48:37 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtppop3pub.verizon.net (smtppop3pub.gte.net [206.46.170.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7141037B400 for ; Sat, 23 Dec 2000 15:48:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from next (crtntx1-ar3-098-023.dsl.gtei.net [4.33.98.23]) by smtppop3pub.verizon.net with SMTP for ; id RAA81593419 Sat, 23 Dec 2000 17:44:13 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <027801c06d3a$deacc810$17622104@next> From: "Jason Halbert" To: References: <025501c06d39$9eee3a70$17622104@next> Subject: Re: Mail Servers Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 23:48:16 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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