* Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi,
> > > >maybe he only accepts only authenticated users to relay ? > > There's a link on the webpage which explains the reason - apparently > they would only accept messages with a From: address like > [EMAIL PROTECTED] from my host. Anything which I've addressed > [EMAIL PROTECTED] has to reach them via yahoo.com's servers. Yeah, one server is for relaying traffic with @... *sender*, and another is for incoming traffic *to the @yahoo.com domain. They're separate, one doesn't accept the stuff for another. <snip> > >Doesn't postfix have some feature like sendmail's mailertable ? > > Yes. On Googling "mailertable" I am able to tell you that this > appears to be exactly the same as /etc/postfix/transport > > So: > $ cat /etc/postfix/transport > lsv.uky.edu :smtp.mail.yahoo.co.uk > tells my server that anything going to lsv.uky.edu should relay via > my outgoing SMTP account at smtp.mail.yahoo.co.uk. This is a _little_ > clumsy for my purposes, but adequate. hmm, looks okay for now. Did you authenticate propery @smtp.mail.yahoo.co.uk ? <snip> > >yeah, postfix gets confused by the "." MX reference for the domain > >smtp1.mail.vip.ukl.yahoo.com. Although it is an unclean configuration, > >I do not see what this has to do with your relay ... your postfix > >just has to pull its mails (for yahoo.co.uk) to smtp.mail.yahoo.co.uk, > >and it has an proper A record, so what does it need the MX record > >for ? > > Ah, looking up <http://www.mob.net/~ted/tools/mx.php3? > domain=smtp.mail.yahoo.co.uk> I see what you mean. > > I don't see why postfix is looking up the MX record for it, either. :( Maybe he's paranoid ? > My immediate reaction is: what if I host a fake MX record for > smtp.mail.yahoo.co.uk on my internal DNS? I'm not sure of the > implications of that. hmm, you could hava a try. > >BTW: if you don't get it fixed, you may get an UUCP account for > >relay at my site. > > I think this would only satisfy mg1.uky.edu if you yourself relayed > anything to its domain via Yahoo. And for that you would require an > SMTP account with Yahoo. My relays push the mails to the MX'es defined in the domains. Maybe I missed the point, but I don't see why this shouldn't work. cu -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrico Weigelt == metux IT service phone: +49 36207 519931 www: http://www.metux.de/ fax: +49 36207 519932 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cellphone: +49 174 7066481 --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
