On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 10:13 AM, Adrian Ulrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Roger, > >> Now we found out that bluewin doesn't allow authenticated smtp-relay >> from users outside their ip-range, so all our customers with >> bluewin-mailadresses would have no smtp-server available. > > That's not entirely correct: > > smtpauth.bluewin.ch will relay mails from non-bluewin-ip-ranges IF the > mailaccount belongs > to a non-free Bluewin/Swisscom 'Abo'. > > > +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ > | Pay account (= Mailaccount | - Can use mail.bluewin.ch from > bluewin-range | > | is 'attached' to an ADSL abo | - Can use smtpauth.bluewin.ch from > EVERYWHERE | > > +-------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------+ > | Free account | - Can use mail.bluewin.ch from > bluewin-range (of course..)| > | | - Can use smtpauth.bluewin.ch from > bluewin-range | > | | - Can NOT use smtpauth.bluewin.ch from > non-bluewin IPs | > > +-------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------+ >
Thank you for clearing this up. So we have to give bluewin-users with free bluewin mail-accounts an smtp-account on our servers I think. > Otherwise spammers would open 100th's of free accounts and use them to send > spam from > non-bluewin IPs :-/ I see the problem, but perhaps something like a captcha would also be sufficient to prevent this. > > > Regards, > Adrian > _______________________________________________ > swinog mailing list > swinog@lists.swinog.ch > http://lists.swinog.ch/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/swinog > _______________________________________________ swinog mailing list swinog@lists.swinog.ch http://lists.swinog.ch/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/swinog
