I believe we have a situation similar to yours, & we relay only for
specified IP addresses or ranges of addresses (one of the standard IMail
options). Would this work for you too?
Bob Timney wrote:
>
> Because we were spammed in the past, we have our security set to only relay local
>hosts. The authentication for each domain is iMail database.
>
> I would like to include a set domain which can also relay mail, which is NOT managed
>by iMail. It is actually another application (ColdFusion) which attaches on and puts
>mail to be sent on the server. The return address is the email address including the
>domain of the user, which is managed by their mail server. So iMail refuses to send
>out the mail.
>
> I have found that if I add the domain as a host, it will allow the mail to go
>through, however, I cannot send mail to anyone in that domain, because iMail sees it
>as a local host and will not forward the mail to the real mail server for that
>domain!!!
>
> I have tried under management to add IPs. The setting of relay only local hosts,
>with the edit local hosts, and adding the ip of the application that connects to the
>iMail server, and then starting and stopping the service. I thought iMail would
>allow all emails generated from this one IP address added to the table would be
>allowed through.
>
> WRONG.
>
> I thought about having an external database, but it still needs to be attached to a
>host, and I still wind up not being able to send to the domain listed on the host.
>
> Is this explanation clear enough, and can what I want done be accomplished?
>
> Thanks in advance for any help!!!
>
> Bob
>
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