| -----Original Message----- | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Davide Libenzi | Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 7:35 PM | To: John Kielkopf | Cc: XMail Mailing list | Subject: Re: relaying... ... | By doing what You're talking about will make You to fall inside | ORBS with tons | of email that You'll receive by Your users that won't be able to | send mail to domain protected by ORBS. Sorry, but you're wrong. ORBS (and every other testing service known to me) is using another testing algorithm, described here: http://www.orbs.org/envelopes.html If tested mail server allows delivery from/to local domains, it will NOT fail in the relay test. I am runnig few mail servers for years and everything is OK. Please also don't forget, so there are lots of devices, who can't use SMTP-Auth. If it's PC software, I may recommend to use another one. But there are another mail capable devices. Like my Nokia 9110 Communicator - this device simply don't support SMTP authentication and there is no way to change it. Similar situation is when we deal with various palm sized computers and organizers. In the ideal world, there would be widely accepted secure mail transport protocol. But this world is not ideal, so we have only old and not so good secured SMTP with few not widely supported additional security features. Currently I am testing and setting up XMail to provide mail services for my customers (about 500 mailboxes). If I imagine so I must all these people notify, how to setup SMTP authentication on 10 operating systems and lots of mail clients which I newer ever heard, I'm thinking about the sucide. So I will probably set up second mail server (with NT's SMTP service) as SMTP. Second way (thanks to Petr Hruzek for suggesting this to me) is to write simple script and setup server to accept everything and then discard bad messages by script. But it's very wrong way, because adds lot of load to the server. Please, add this relay mode to XMail. I am web developer and don't know C++, so I can't do this alone. -- Michal 'Altair' Valasek Altair Software Production ----------------------------[I don't make the rules; I just break them.]--- Webdesign, webhosting, programming - They use the Internet, we live there! E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * ICQ: 6160893 * Phone: +420-603-828493 Corp. WWW: http://www.altair2000.net * Personal: http://home.altair2000.net _____________________________________________________...powered by Internet
