Subject: Re: e-mail server working! (partly)
From: Jim Gribbin (jgribbin@alaska.net)
Date: Sun Feb 17 2002 - 10:51:45 AKST
I've never set up a mailserver - so maybe I'm out of line. But if I try
to send mail on GCI's smtp server with the return address in my mail
program (Evolution or whatever) set to me@alaska.net, I get back a
similar 'relaying' message. So maybe you need to change who your mail is
comming from.
Jim
On Sat, 2002-02-16 at 08:44, Tom wrote:
>
> On Sat, 16 Feb 2002, Craig Callender wrote:
> > Putting acsalaska.net in there is NOT a good idea. Now, every single DSL
> > user can use your mailserver to send out mail (or spam). If they catch
> > you sending spam from your account they will disconnect you.
>
> Okay - that explains why it works: Anyone with a acsalaska.net hostname is
> seen as being a local host... I'm fighting similar probs on a cable modem
> - if I try to use smtp.alaskatech.org as my outgoing server, it fails with
> 'relaying not allowed', but if I use smtp.gci.net it works. Adding
> anchorageak.net (which is the domain name auto-assigned to cable modem
> users) to relay-domains allows things to work.
>
> One error I get in my mail.log is that my system, which looks like
> 'cable-<ip address>. anchorageak.net', is trying to advertise itself as
> 'erwin.alaskatech.org'. Is this conflict perhaps related to the problem?
>
> > So, if you have an internal network on your DSL line, you will want to add
> > that network to your access file like this. Say your computers IP is
> > 192.168.1.2 and you want everything on your network to be able to relay:
> >
> > 192.168.1. RELAY
> >
> > That will allow any IP that starts with that address to relay.
> >
> > Just some food for thought.
>
> Unfortunately, I'm not running an internal network, so I can get any of a
> number of IPs; I don't think putting '24.237.' in there as relay would be
> good :-)
>
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