[ale] Sendmail

[Dow Hurst]

Thanks James!  So outgoing mail from your machines goes thru mindspring 
but incoming mail essentially bypasses mindspring via your DNS MX 
record.  As a backup path you can have the fetchmail path available as 
well.  I think I've got it understood now. :-)  I appreciate your 
instruction!
Dow


James P. Kinney III wrote:

>email to me is sent through my email forwarding from my domain hosting.
>My email (jkinney at localnetsolutions.com) is pointed to my email machine
>that has a static IP address and has my domain name pointed to it.
>
>In other words, my domain hosting allows me to point a
>machine.domain.com name to an IP address I specify. So mail gets sent to
>my machine. I can also turn that off and just have it sent to my
>mindspring account and can pick it up using fetchmail. 
>
>On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 11:22, Dow Hurst wrote:
>  
>
>>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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Dow Hurst                  Office: 770-499-3428
Systems Support Specialist    Fax: 770-423-6744
1000 Chastain Rd., Bldg. 12
Chemistry Department SC428  Email:dhurst at kennesaw.edu
Kennesaw State University         Dow.Hurst at mindspring.com
Kennesaw, GA 30144
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