[ale] Sendmail

[James P. Kinney III]

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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