Eric,
I am using Microsoft's SMTP service, and it does now allow authentication
when forwarding as far as I can see.
As i've stated I have two connections to my e-mail server,
mail.spectratek.net and mail1.spectratek.net they both revert to the correct
IP address. But when you do a check on the IP address itself, it shows the
name of my ISP instead.
For example IP address mail.spectratek.net is IP address 66.12.134.146.
If I go to whois.sc
http://whois.domaintools.com/66.12.134.146
it shows this:
bdsl.66.12.134.146.gte.net
Who would I go to, to correct the rDNS, Verizon/GTE or my web host?
What MTA do you recommend, so that I can deliver mail thru my web host SMTP
server?
On 12/5/06, Eric B. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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
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