> is sending mail to anyone, that is not within the local host, is > relaying?
Anyone that is not within the local hosts and host aliases on the IMail server is remote. Sending to a remote server from your (remote) client is relaying. See below. > That to me is sending email. It's all email. :) > ~So sending email from a.com to nonlocal.com is relaying? Yes, because "you" (your MUA, whether WM or Win32) are logically remote to the server. There's always a third level. How your MUA presents yourself to the MTA dictates whether the MTA "treats you as local"--but you are always logically remote. > I've thought relaying was sending mail from nonloacal.com to a.com > to othernonlocal.com was relaying. (a.com being the local host) Remember that your MUA has no inherent domain affinity to the MTA. It has domain(s) claimed in your EHLO and MAIL FROM, but those are utterly untrustworthy. It only has an IP. So, in identifying who "you" are, the MTA must decide to accept your MAIL FROM (readily forged), your IP (impossible to forge with an adequate firewall), or your SMTP AUTH/WM credentials (impossible to forge, by definition, though possible to socially engineer). > Strange enough though I can post to this list and it's not in my local > domain and I have relay mail for no one checked. Everyone must use > their username/pwd to send & receive email. Yes, you are using option 3, SMTP AUTH credentials, to identify yourself to the server. If you did not use AUTH, you could not send outside IMail's local domains. > Is this working right or is it broke? It's working just fine. -Sandy Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
