On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 09:14:28PM -0700, James House wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm new to Courier and fairly new to SMTP servers in general. > > Can some one give me some quick pointers on what options I need to set up > in Courier to get the following behavior: > > Scenario: > > 1) Courier server running on machine: mail.aaa.com > 2) Courier server "knows" about several virtual domains, say bbb.com and > ccc.com. > 3) Mail users are non-system accounts (i.e. setup in GDBM) - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 4) User "joe" checks and sends mail from his home ISP (xxx.com) > > How do I: > > 1) Allow "joe" (who has an account on the Courier server) to relay mail > from his home computer (using some IP address from his dial-up ISP > account), using a client such as Eudora/Outlook/Evolution
Enable SMTP authnetication on your courier, and ask him to configure his client for authenticated smtp. > 2) Disallow "dick" to relay mail from his computer on some unknown network > to domains that the Courier server isn't serving. By default, courier does not relay. Your default installation is secure from third-party relay. > 3) Allow "dick" (some unknown computer on some unknown network) to send > mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" (an account hosted on the Courier server) bbb.com should be in your "locals" or "hosteddomains" file, depending on how you setup your local accounts. > In other words, how do I let anyone relay mail (from external networks), as > long as they can "authenticate", and disallow relaying if they can't, but > still allow posting as long as it is to a local account? This is default behaviour. You don't have to do anything. -- Anand Buddhdev http://anand.org ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: To learn the basics of securing your web site with SSL, click here to get a FREE TRIAL of a Thawte Server Certificate: http://www.gothawte.com/rd524.html _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
