hi nadia007 wrote: > also send and receive just fine. Unfortunately my remote users that are > using their outlook and using either using IMAP or POP3 are having a very > difficult time sending email through the mail server.
> postfix/smtpd[4496]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from unknown[208.11.90.100]: 554 > : Relay access denied; from= to= proto=SMTP helo= as far as i understood you would like to allow people to use your local efw as an smtp for remote users. efw is only designed to act as an smtp proxy, which means it intercepts outgoing connections from a client to an smtp server, and backwards, a connection from the outside to your local mailserver. what you try to do is using the firewall directly as an smtp in order to allow people to relay mails through it. this does not work, because otherwise you would have an open relay which allows spammer to send mails over it wherever they want. you solve this by letting your remote users use their providers smtp server, which has to allow relaying mails from its own local ip addresses. peter -- :: e n d i a n :: open source - open minds :: peter warasin :: http://www.endian.it :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Efw-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/efw-user
