There are basically 3 ways to accomplish what you want, only 2 are probably desirable.
1) Relay anything on your mail server, bad in so many ways. 2) Pop before SMTP. That is a feature in dbmail where when a user pop's their email first, their IP is placed in a table dbmail_pbsp for a "period of time". Then you have to configure postfix to do a SQL query for valid IP's from that table. I have not done this, so I cannot comment any further. 3) Use AUTH SMTP with Postfix, this is what we do. I can help you with this setup. You will need sasl compiled and postfix recompiled with sasl support. When compiling both remember to add database support for your DB. Once there it's pretty easy to set up SASL to query the database when a user requests authentication. Both 2 and 3 usually require the user to alter their SMTP program to work with them. I prefer to just have them log in rather than depend on an IP allow based on some time period. However, I will add that both of these features are becoming useless as most all providers disallow SMTP out of their network. So even with it configured your user will most likely have to set their outgoing SMTP to the external provider they are with. The exception to that rule is the new Message Submission Protocol on port 587. It's basically AUTH SMTP running on port 587 which is usually not blocked by providers as by it's nature it should only allow AUTH SMTP. It the *new* "what everyone should use" approach to help stop spam. -- David A. Niblett | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Administrator | Phone: (352) 334-3400 Gainesville Regional Utilities | Web: http://www.gru.net/ -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Carrera Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 8:15 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [Dbmail] Postfix / Dbmailallow user to send emails outside mynetwork Hi All, I have been trying to figure out how to allow users to send emails from outside my network but i am having real problems with the various howto's. Dose anyone here know of a good page that has a working postfix / dbmail allow user to send emails kind of page ??? Thank you in advance for any help Dave C _______________________________________________ Dbmail mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.fastxs.nl/mailman/listinfo/dbmail
