[Cialug] SMTP Relay

Jeff Davis jdavis at geolearning.com
Tue Jul 10 14:15:32 CDT 2007


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My employer runs sendmail...on slackware no less.

- -Jeff


David Champion wrote:
> Ah, so YOU'RE the guy that still uses sendmail. :p
> 
> I'm using postfix.
> 
> -dc
> 
> Roach, John wrote:
>> Hmm, I am just using sendmail with the authorization protocols, and then enabling a username and password with the outgoing mail auth settings in the client. Here is a link to the sendmail info on It.
>>  
>> http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/auth.html
>>  
>> John
>>
>> ________________________________
>>
>> From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org on behalf of David Champion
>> Sent: Tue 7/10/2007 1:29 PM
>> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
>> Subject: Re: [Cialug] SMTP Relay
>>
>>
>>
>> James Shoemaker wrote:
>>>   Anyone have a favorite SMTP relay provider?  I have a static IP, but
>>> no reverse DNS to it and I have started getting issues sending email to
>>> some domains so I need a system to relay through that has proper DNS
>>> entries.  Don't mention using my provider's SMTP server as they don't
>>> provide one, just webmail.  Switching providers is also not an option as
>>> they are the only one.
>>>
>>> James
>> Speaking of smtp... what are people doing for allowing remote smtp
>> authentication? I'm using pop-before-smtp. It kinda works, but has
>> problems. To use it, I have to start my email client, the send an email
>> to myself (or anyone at my domain). If I don't do this, and try to send
>> an email to anyone outside, I get a relaying denied message. After a
>> while (30 minutes or so) the session times out, and I'll start getting
>> the relaying denied message. I have to close the email client and start
>> it again, and send myself another message...
>>
>> -dc
>>
>>
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