On Sat, 31 Aug 2002, Riaz wrote:
> > > >why are you doing that ? imho, you should not redirect port 25 traffic so > >that users that already have a valid smtp gateway can use it directly. you > >should also have your own enable smtp gateway for users that cannot use an > >external mta. > > Hi Davide, > > The problem is that hotel guests have all sorts of different mail settings. > For example one guest may be from Germany and his smtp settings > are smtp.localisp.de another guests may be from Zimbabwe and her > smtp settings will be smtp.localisp.zw. > > If I did not do SMTP redirection, the guest would try to send email, their > computer would connect to their ISP's smtp server, and their SMTP > server would most likely give a '550 relay denied' error. > > When I transparently redirect port 25, the person does not have to change > their smtp server. Their mail automatically gets redirected to the xmail > server, > then the xmail server sends the email. The user has no idea what is going on in > the background, they just know that their email was sent. This works very well > for 95% of of the hotel guests. > > The problem with the other 5% of guests is that they may have SMTP-AUTH > enabled, and when the transparent redirection takes place, the local xmail > server > does not accept the user name and password. > > In an ideal world, everyone would have smtp-auth enabled and I would not > have to > do SMTP redirection, but unfortunately this being a hotel, most of the > users are from > all over and they all have different settings. Also, the hotel is VERY > opposed to having > the guests change ANYTHING on their computer, even IP addresses, mail > settings etc... > So you can see the problem I have. :) > > Anyways, I certainly am not asking you to change your program (which is the > best > MTA I have found btw) but I am wondering if there is some setting I can > change to permit > any username/password combo to work. Thanks for your help. i'm sorry but the only way to accomplish such behaviour is to change the source code. as you can understand i cannot change the mainstream source to fit such specific feature. - Davide - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
