[ale] Sendmail

[Dow Hurst]

James,
So, in layman's terms, you are allowed to send email thru your sendmail 
to smtp.mindspring.com becaused you are authenticated via your PPPOE 
connection.  How does the email from your clients that gets to the 
mindspring mail servers actually get to your sendmail server?  That is 
still not clear to me.  How does the mindspring mail server know to 
relay the email to your local sendmail server?  Or, let me reword the 
question, is it that your DNS info for localnetsolutions resolves for 
the mindspring mail servers to an IP that they understand is part of 
"their" network and is authenticated?  They go that far to accomodate 
users?  Thanks,
Dow


James P. Kinney III wrote:

>I have these line in /etc/sendmail.cf
>
># Smart host
>DSsmtp.mindspring.com
># Use this mailer to reach the Smart host
>DNsmtp
>
>
>Mail originates from my clients and is relayed through to mindspring
>mail servers. This is allowed because my access is known to mindspring
>throught their authentication process. Email from me, which is generated
>inside my firewall, sent from my email server and traveling out through
>mindspring, shows as having originated from my server, not mindspring.
>
>The no relay is required since it is currently illegal to assassinate
>spammers.
>
>On Fri, 2002-09-20 at 19:46, Adrin wrote:
>  
>
>> I have been looking at configuring my Linux box as a mail server.  And would love to do
>>it with sendmail. I have some Linux docs and a coffee pot, only does 12 cups at a time
>>though. Is it really that hard to do?
>>
>> Something that is just blowing my mind is that mindspring doesn't allow relaying. Does
>>that only block client software like Netscape, outlook... etc.  I actually have sendmail
>>running on my system I can email myself and probably anyone else that uses mindspring for
>>that matter from my Linux box. But if I try to email to another domain forget it.
>>
>> My biggest question is and most confusing part is:
>>
>> Why do I have to put mail.mindspring.com as the outgoing smtp mail server?  if I am using
>>another server for email and even still use the account name for the other remote email?
>>Just seems odd.
>>
>>
>>Adrin
>>
>>
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