[ale] Sendmail

[James P. Kinney III]

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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Local Net Solutions,LLC \           at a time.          /
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