>What is Eudora ?

It's a famous American poetess named after a mail program.

>Over here in germany the most famous client are
>Outlook Express followed by Netscape Messeenger.
>Clients like Eudora and Pegasus and my beloved
>Forte Agent (which I cannot use behind our firewall somehow),
>are not very popular to the masses.

> > SMTP AUTH is the RFC way to do it, and is supported by the vast
> > majority of mail pgms.  Mail pgms that cannot do SMTP AUTH don't have
> > much future as more and more access providers require authentication
> > before relaying.
>
>A well configured SendMail-linux box as smarthost is much better imho.

much better as what?

>To come to your question:
>I configured the old mailserver of ours as both handling outgoing traffic and
>incoming traffic. Incoming traffic will be "scanned" by SendMail 
>rulesets and then
>invoked to the IMail-Server.

ok, a mail gateway.

>Stopping SMTP on IMail does only mean that you cannot deliver Mails to
>IMail directly.
>But you can send eMails from IMail to a smarthost "mail relay"
>and this send it out to the internet.

What good is Imail if it can't receive SMTP mail?

What are we talking about?

Len



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