RE: [Sheflug] Mail stuff

["Lewis Ashton" <nospam [at] supanet.com>]

Hi,

I guess you are using sendmail on the relay box?

Relaying by your ISP should be controlled on the basis of IP address
(because you are sending outbound mail to an arbitrary domain). Therefore,
the IP of your mail server must be one that your ISP recognises. Are you
using DHCP or static IP when you dial up?

Assuming that lot is working as it should, and your ISP has configured their
mail server to allow your IP then I'm a little stumped. It should not matter
that you have a network behind your mail box.

On the authentication stuff, I wonder if your or their box is trying RFC
1413 ident lookups. Make sure you configure your mail box to not require
that.....not that I have the faintest idea how to do that in sendwhale.

As a side issue, the use of DUL/MAPS is bloody sensible if you ask me. You
get a lot of utter crap from free ISPs dialup IP pool.

Lewis

> -----Original Message-----
> From: sheflug-bounce@vuw.ac.nz [mailto:nospam [at] vuw.ac.nz]On
> Behalf Of Craig Andrews
> Sent: 15 February 2001 09:07
> To: sheflug [at] vuw.ac.nz
> Subject: [Sheflug] Mail stuff
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> I am having no end of difficulty with my mail server at the
> moment. I seem to be able to send mail to myself (via my ISP's
> server), but not to anyone else.
>
> The mail is sent from my desktop machine to my mail machine,
> which is then sent to my ISP's mail server. I do this, because of
> MAPS (Mail Abuse Prevention System), which many servers employ yo
> stop people connection directly from dial up boxen. Just a way to
> control your input and output flow if you ask me...
>
> Anyway, I digress, the mail is sent to my server, and then
> relayed to my ISP's server, which is then sent to whereever.
> However, it just bounces back, telling me it 'cannot relay for
> <insert recipients address here>'. It also informs me of an
> authentication problem. It seems that it thinks the mail is
> coming from my server (scavenger.fishbot.org.uk), but is claiming
> to be my desktop (maverick.fi...).
>
> So, how do I set up mail forwarding (I use SuSE 7.0, so YaST
> instructions would do, but I'd rather use the proper set up) so
> that I can send mail to it from my desktop machine (using pine
> set up to use an smtp server), and then forward it to my ISP,
> without the above problems.
>
> Cheers,
>
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