Rhoades, Jake wrote: > Hi all, > > I am one of the mail admins at a small ISP and we have been > getting repeatedly put on the sbcglobal, bellsouth.net, and att.net > local block lists. Once we were finally able to get in touch with > someone they told us that we were being blocked because of allowing some > of our customers, that are on our network, to send out through our > mailserver. These customers use another provider for mail hosting but > would send out through our mailserver. Now because of this it was > decided that we would implement smtp-auth and not use the ip-base > allowed sending within qmail-smtpd.rules. My manager keeps telling me > that there is an RFC that wasn’t followed very closely in the past that > we should follow and that is why it was decided to move in this > direction. With all this being said I have 2 main questions (probably > just to start with). > > > > 1. I do not understand how allowing our customers to send through > our mail system is doing anything different then ATT&T is. From what I > can find on the net they block all port 25 traffic on there network and > force all there customers to send out using there mailservers. So even > if you wanted to use your mail provider to send your mail out you could not. > > 2. I have tried reading up on the RFC’s for email to see if I > could find what everyone here is talking about but I am having > problems. If there is anyone out there who understands what I am > talking about, I would really appreciate it if you could point me in the > right direction. A little paraphrasing would be a big help also. > > > > I am sorry if this should have been posted elsewhere but I am running > out of hair to pull out. > > > > > > Thanks a ton in advance. > > Jake >
http://www.qmail-ldap.org/wiki/index.php/Configuration_FAQ#How_do_I_enable_SMTP-AUTH.3F Does that help? -- -Eric 'shubes'
