We recently had a new customer setup on iMail using aliases. For example [EMAIL PROTECTED] gets delivered to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Their normal mode previously was to send responses from [EMAIL PROTECTED] back to the person who originally sent the inquiry. What we have discovered is that while it is possible to receive e-mail addressed to the alias and even send e-mail to other addresses on the server from the alias address it is NOT possible to send email to an outside destination using the alias as apparently the current setting "Relay for Local Users Only" refuses the transmission. This seems a bit inconsistent to me. It appears to validate the addresses only on users and does not validate on aliases. I am sure I will be told this is by design, but my instinct tells me it was an oversight. Something like "Users" means "Users" and not "Users and Aliases". Otherwise "we would have labelled it "Relay for Local Users and Aliases Only". (probably giving Ipswitch a good response here). Question 1. Has this been addressed in version 7.0x? Question 2. We are about to change over to "no relay" and have all the users use SMTP Authentication to close the last gates as a result of the attack we saw this weekend with the spam relay that got by us and we still do not fully understand how. In this case, would the mail to the outside destination be allowed from the Alias or would it STILL be blocked? Question 3. Is there something we may be overlooking that is causing the blockage of the e-mail Orin R. Wells AWASCO, Inc. P. O. Box 5427 Kent, WA 98064-5427 (253) 630-5296 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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/
