Subject: Re: Question on smtp and relaying
From: i_robot (i-robot@gci.net)
Date: Mon Nov 11 2002 - 17:58:05 AKST
Hey Jon, May have been a typo, but you said you used mail.gci.net, when it
should have been smtp.gci.net. If it's not a typo, maybe it has something to
do with it...
Adam
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jon Reynolds" <jonr@destar.net>
To: "Jon Reynolds" <jonr@destar.net>
Cc: "Aklug" <aklug@aklug.org>
Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 4:16 PM
Subject: Re: Question on smtp and relaying
>
> Let me clarify this a little better with an example of what I mean.
>
> I sit here at work and try to mail aklug from my evolution mta with my
> home domain as the smtp server. I get denied when I try that because I
> am on another domain outside of my own, but when I put mail.gci.net as
> my smtp server it sends just fine.
>
> And after writing this out I am wondering is it because I am inside of
> gci's network and if I were a network unto myself such as gci, I
> wouldn't have this problem, is that right?
>
> Jon
>
> On Mon, 2002-11-11 at 16:11, Jon Reynolds wrote:
> >
> > How is that gci is able to send email to every domain in the world
> > without being an open relay? When I set up my mail server I have to use
> > mail.gci.net as the smtp server in my client otherwise I would have to
> > add every domain in my allow control file. Am I missing something simple
> > here?
> >
> > Jon
> >
> >
> >
> >
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