> Does anyone know if it's possible to relay mail thru my ISP with ASSP? > My setup is ASSP v1.2.4(0) > > incoming ASSP -> Exchange 5.5 -> users > outgoing users -> Exchange 5.5 -> ASSP -> SMTP relay -> Internet > > Mail is getting rejected form AOL, Earthlink, Comcast because there is no > rDNS. I do have a static IP address for my two connections, I am using > Verizon DSL and Earthlink DSL for Internet access. My web site is hosted > at > Ipowerweb Inc. I have access to an SMTP server but it requires username > and > password.
Although this isn't an immediate response to your question, if you have a static IP address for your connections, why don't you set up a rDNS pointer for your SMTP relay server? Do you have access to your own DNS servers? I know I was having an rDNS issue like this a while ago because my ISP didn't know/realize that I was hosting my own DNS servers. So even though I had rDNS pointers setup in my servers, the reverse lookups never actually made it to my servers and stopped at the ISP level. Their DNS server would return some unknown value, or non-matching value, so some of my mail was being rejected as well. A little fishing around on Google helped me find information how to manually do nslookups to get the reverse pointers resolved and verify if it was actually my DNS servers that were responding or not. > There is not place in ASSP where I can configure this, unless I've missed > something. I believe you are right - I don't recall seeing anything in ASSP which allows for this - might be a useful feature to request in the future. However, there is definitely a workaround for it (a little clumsy, maybe, but definitely functional). You can probably configure your SMTP relay server to relay through to your ISP SMTP server. Most MTAs allow for SMTP Authentication when configuring relay information. What MTA are you using as the SMTP Relay server? Basically, your setup would look like: outgoing users -> Exchange 5.5 -> ASSP -> Interal SMTP relay -> ISP SMTP -> Internet Good Luck, Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Assp-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/assp-user
