At 6:21 PM -0500 12/7/99, Adam D . McKenna wrote:
>On Tue, Dec 07, 1999 at 11:16:33PM +0000, Sam wrote:
>> Stefaan A Eeckels writes:
>> > The qmail connection being that I'm running qmail on our
>> > corporate server, and he wants me to basically make it an
>> > open relay so he can use the SMTP server from his portable
>> > (he's on the road a lot, uses a lot of different ISP while
>> > on the road, wants his mail to look as if it comes from
>> > the corporate server, and can't/won't give me a range of
>> > IP addresses). Refusing mail that doesn't come from
>> > our domain is of course dimwitted, as we would not be receiving
>> > a lot of mail :-).
>> > He pretends this can be done with Exchange or Notes - I guess
>> > it's BS, but I don't know these animals...
>>
>> It's BS.
>
>Also, depending on his providers' policies, he should be able to use their
>relays for outgoing mail, while using his internal e-mail address. Most
>providers allow this.
We have the same issue, and this is what all of our mobile users do. They use
"mail.___ISP___.net" as the outgoing SMTP server. Works just fine.
-c
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