On Friday 29 August 2003 00:09, Stephen Reese wrote: > alright currently we send mail through courier via > > smtp.itcdeltacom.com: > > which is in the smtproutes file so our mail leaves my server and is > process through another server which I think I could do without but I'm > not sure how to configure it securely > > this works but if I have a functioning mail server how can I change this > to send from my own server and without people using my server as a SMTP > relay.
Courier will do all this automatically. If you remove the entry from the esmtproutes file then courier will use DNS records to look up the mailhost for each message and send directly to that host. If that host supports the STARTTLS extention then the mail will be sent securely. Courier is not an open-relay "out of the box". By default it won't relay mail for anyone. You can change that by enabling certain ip ranges to relay mail in the smtpaccess/default file or by configuring smtpauth. But you have to work to get it be an open relay. People usually have the opposite problem. They don't know how to get courier to accept mail for their own domains much less relay mail for foreign domains. (A much "safer" problem to have, IMHO. :-) Jeff Jansen ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
