Sandy your are a genius - Thanks.
Sanford Whiteman wrote: >>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 > ___________________________________________________________________ Virus Scanned and Filtered by http://www.FamHost.com E-Mail System. 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/
