Troy,
Maybe, you would be best served by having another computer running a
secondary mail server whose only job was to relay mail. It could be the
secondary mail server for your main server and a relay (and secondary) for
all your other domains. IMail can do many things, sometimes all at once, but
sometimes, it can be better to have several to do the job, rather than one
trying to be 'everything'. The decision can be complex, but I'm sure if you
tell us more about your usage of IMail (# of accounts, domains, mail load,
needs of your users on Relaying, Auth and such), other recommendations will
follow. Even Len, uses this technique for his system, as do others. Cost can
be anything from very low, to whatever you want to spend.
Lens comments to technical questions are quite often (ok, almost always!)
'on the mark', you just have to be careful, when reading his answers, that
he is not pulling your leg.
BTW, Len, I got a chuckle from your 'ironic' comment about becoming a
spammer!
Daniel Donnelly
Ipswitch Technical Support
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Troy Settle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, May 26, 2000 12:18 PM
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Setting up Imail to be secondary mail serverfor a
lease line
> ** >To do this, you have to enable relaying for the domain in
> ** question. This is
> ** >NOT an easy thing to do with Imail
> **
> ** ????
>
> Oh, c'mon. Don't quote me out of context, you deleted half that
paragraph.
> The difficult part, is maintaining the Windows HOSTS file. Yeah, it's
easy
> enough to set up, but then you got to track all of your customers' mail
> servers. I suppose it's not hard, it's just a PITA.
>
>
> ** >The other option, as Len so graciously pointed out in another
> ** thread, is to
> ** >simply turn your Imail server into a spamgate, allowing anyone
> ** and everyone
> ** >to relay through you.
> **
> ** there must have been a communication failure, gracious or otherwise.
>
> Darnit, I've already deleted that particular thread.
>
> You had said something to the effect of "open up your server to relay
> anything, there's already 10's of 1000's of people who do this"
>
>
> -Troy
>
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