Re: [expert] Sending mail throughout several smtp servers?

2003-09-07 Thread bascule
francisco, i'm not surprised that you can't use either smtp server while not 
authenticated with it i.e. not logged on the network it's physically attached 
to, this is to prevent spamming activity, you may log onto your uni network 
from home but the smtp server will see that you are 'outside' the uni network 
and disallow relaying from you, all isps i know of do the same, however, why 
do you wish to do this? surely either server will relay all your mail 
whatever the 'sender' address as long as your are connected to it's local 
network? the windows prog you mention is probably just a windows alternative 
to stuff like postfix or sendmail, i use postfix on my linux box, that way i 
don't have to worry about smtp servers at all (except where outblaze think 
i'm a spammer cos i deliver direct!)

bascule

On Sunday 07 Sep 2003 3:12 pm, Francisco wrote:
 I have two e-mail accounts, one at home ([EMAIL PROTECTED], using the
 smtp.ono.com server) and other at work ([EMAIL PROTECTED], using the
 correo.um.es server). The problem is that I can't send form my home
 computer messages throughout the University server (correo.um.es) and
 viceversa, I can't send messages  from a computer located in the Uniersity
 throughout the mail-server at home (smtp.ono.com).

 I have heard that under windows a package entitled mailserver could do
 that, but I have not idea what programme and how I can do that under Linux.

 Any help will be welcomme.

 Thanks so much in advance.

 Francisco Alcaraz
 Murcia (Spain)

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Re: [expert] Sending mail throughout several smtp servers?

2003-09-07 Thread Francisco
But bascule,

If you use postfix you do need to buy a domain name, don't you?

Regards

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Re: [expert] Sending mail throughout several smtp servers?

2003-09-07 Thread David E. Fox
 messages throughout the University server (correo.um.es) and viceversa, I
 can't send messages  from a computer located in the Uniersity throughout the
 mail-server at home (smtp.ono.com).

Well, here' s a thought.. is your home box set up for ssh? Could you
use putty (highly recommended for windows) and just log onto your
system remotely from the uni and send mail using elm?

 Francisco Alcaraz


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Re: [expert] Sending mail throughout several smtp servers?

2003-09-07 Thread Richard Urwin
On Sunday 07 Sep 2003 5:07 pm, Francisco wrote:
 But bascule,

 If you use postfix you do need to buy a domain name, don't you?

No.

So long as your ISP offers SMTP delivery postfix will work. If you don't 
have smtp delivery then fetchmail will pull mail from POP3 mailboxes 
and deliver it to your Linux mail system. Fetchmail may also send mail 
to your ISP with SMTP, I don't know, I don't use it myself. If not then 
you can use postfix for that.

A domain name is something you should look into though, it is not 
expensive, (under GBP7 for .org.uk, for two years,) and even without 
postfix etc it can make your life a lot easier if you want to change 
ISPs.

For example 123-reg.co.uk, (and I think, lots of others,) offer mail 
redirection. so you just redirect [EMAIL PROTECTED] to 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

When you change isp, you just change the redirect, and your email 
address stays the same.

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Re: [expert] Sending mail throughout several smtp servers?

2003-09-07 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 07 September 2003 12:07 pm, Francisco wrote:
 But bascule,
 
 If you use postfix you do need to buy a domain name, don't you?
 
Postfix will make a direct smtp connection with the recipient's mail server 
and you can use it to send without using it to receive, in fact that is what 
I am doing right now.  This message was delivered to the list via postfix 
running on my machine, and you don't need a domain name for that.  The only 
problem with this is that some isp's block smtp port 25 and require you to 
use their mail servers instead in an effort to block spammers.
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Re: [expert] Sending mail throughout several smtp servers?

2003-09-07 Thread Richard Urwin
On Sunday 07 Sep 2003 7:02 pm, Greg Meyer wrote:
 On Sunday 07 September 2003 12:07 pm, Francisco wrote:
  But bascule,
 
  If you use postfix you do need to buy a domain name, don't you?

 Postfix will make a direct smtp connection with the recipient's mail
 server and you can use it to send without using it to receive, in
 fact that is what I am doing right now.  This message was delivered
 to the list via postfix running on my machine, and you don't need a
 domain name for that.  The only problem with this is that some isp's
 block smtp port 25 and require you to use their mail servers instead
 in an effort to block spammers.

Blocking port 25 only affects incoming mail. If you use POP3 to receive 
then it wont affect you.

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Re: [expert] Sending mail throughout several smtp servers?

2003-09-07 Thread Richard Urwin
On Monday 08 Sep 2003 1:10 am, Greg Meyer wrote:
 On Sunday 07 September 2003 07:26 pm, Richard Urwin wrote:
   Postfix will make a direct smtp connection with the recipient's
   mail server and you can use it to send without using it to
   receive, in fact that is what I am doing right now.  This message
   was delivered to the list via postfix running on my machine, and
   you don't need a domain name for that.  The only problem with
   this is that some isp's block smtp port 25 and require you to use
   their mail servers instead in an effort to block spammers.
 
  Blocking port 25 only affects incoming mail. If you use POP3 to
  receive then it wont affect you.

 My understanding is that my isp can block (it doesn't, some do) port
 25 at it's router/firewall so that my machine cannot make a smtp
 connection to any other machine outside of its network.  This forces
 me to use their smtp server for all outgoing mail.

 Also, Roadrunner blocks port 25 connections from dynamic ip address
 ranges, so I cannot send a message to someone using roadrunner using
 postfix.  I have to use my isp's smtp server for that too.

I've not come across that before, but it doesn't stop you doing what you 
want. There has been some talk on the list about your address going 
into a blackhole list if you mail directly, anyway.

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Re: [expert] Sending mail throughout several smtp servers?

2003-09-07 Thread Bill Mullen
On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Richard Urwin wrote:

 On Sunday 07 Sep 2003 7:02 pm, Greg Meyer wrote:
 
  Postfix will make a direct smtp connection with the recipient's mail
  server and you can use it to send without using it to receive, in fact
  that is what I am doing right now.  This message was delivered to the
  list via postfix running on my machine, and you don't need a domain
  name for that.  The only problem with this is that some isp's block
  smtp port 25 and require you to use their mail servers instead in an
  effort to block spammers.
 
 Blocking port 25 only affects incoming mail. If you use POP3 to receive
 then it wont affect you.

Untrue. Some ISPs block outbound port 25 to any systems other than their
own SMTP servers. This will prevent direct mail delivery by Postfix, and
require the use of the ISP's server as a relay host, or a tunneling setup
via another host outside of the provider's network.

We have the recent innovation in Wincrap viruses, self-contained SMTP
agents, to thank for this development, IMHO. While spammers have been an
increasing burden on ISPs, no doubt, few Windoze users had been running
mail servers that they could co-opt, and spam was therefore more of an
inbound problem for the vast majority of operators; now that each new
virus-attacked host becomes a direct spam source as well - as part and
parcel of the infection process - some ISPs are becoming more proactive in
enforcing their AUP/TOS by blocking outbound 25; as this new policy *does*
somewhat inhibit the spread of the viruses in question, the ISPs are not
getting a lot of flak over it from the bulk of their client base, either.

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