Len, If i am understanding the documentation correctly, I can not set for relay for local addresses only as this is a public mail service..people on isps all across the US may be our customers. So I figured local users plus smtp auth was the best option left. And of course a big kill list. This way in order to send mail from or through our servers, they must login using smtp auth using their account name and password, AND the from address must be a valid mail user. Am i thinking about that the right way? Thanks for your thoughts. Kim -----Original Message----- From: Len Conrad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Friday, August 18, 2000 12:00 AM Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] server rejected senders's email address > >>I have a customer getting the following message when trying to send via his >>smtp account. I set up his mail in my outlook and it works fine. >>So far he has set up a new mail account, doublechecked spelling and caps, >>looked for spaces,doublecheked accountname and password. He has also tried >>it from different pcs. >>It is a virtual host. We use the built in database. >> >>On the server side we have smtp auth turned on and relay for local users >>checked..if that matters. > >yes, it does matter. That's called an "open-relay" setup. Change to >"relay for addresses" which, combined with SMTP AUTH, is Imail's best >anti open-relay config. > >>Any suggestions on how to troubleshoot this problem? I am not sure what logs >>would track this.. >>And I am out of ideas of what else he can try. > >Show us the imail\spool\sysMMDD.txt file where this person connects >and fails. > >Stop/start your Imail SMTP service. It has been reported here, with >6.04, that NS alone can have SMTP AUTH failures until the Imail SMTP >svc has been stop/started. > >>I tend to think it is a client problem, but could it be something on the >>server side? > >apparently, there's still something broken in SMTP interaction of NS + 6.04. > >>I have stopped and started all imail services. > >oops. The usually fix its until the next time. > >Len > > >http://BIND8NT.MEIway.com: ISC BIND 8.2.2 p5 installable binary for NT4 >http://IMGate.MEIway.com: Build free, hi-perf, anti-spam mail gateways > >Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html >to be removed from this list. > >An Archive of this list is available at: >http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
