Per Hedeland wrote: > Nevertheless you need to tell sendmail which clients are allowed to > relay, by means of IP address/network or host/domain name - sendmail > can't know what your network topology is. If your server cannot be > reached *at all* from the Internet, you could use > FEATURE(`promiscuous_relay') to turn off all anti-relay functionality - > but I'd recommend against it. Even I would not like to do the same. So far I have gone as far as configuring sendmail to atleast accept mail from my clients. I have used linuxconf and after that hand twiked the sendmail.cf. So for me its still not clear whether I have done every thing right, because its hard to read sendmail.cf rule sets. So I dont know that I may have actualy opened some hole in sendmail. Please have look at the header of this mail. > >I have two options here. > >Either I tell my ISP (who hosts my web page) to forward all my mail ( > >*@mydomain.dom) to my local ISP's mail box (Who gives me the access to > >internet via dialup) Or I can tell my hosting service to accumulate all mail > >address to *@mydomain.dom > >What do u sujest is the best approch? > > I'm not sure exactly what the difference is between those two options - > if it's only geographical I'd say it doesn't matter much. The > problematic thing is putting mail destined for mutliple users into a > single mailbox, primarily because the actual recipient information may > then be lost. Better alternatives are, in approximate order of > preference: > > - Have your provider (either of them) use SMTP to transfer mail directly > to your system. This would entail the provider queueing (as opposed to > storing in a mailbox) your mail when you're offline, and typically > your notifying his mailserver by means of the ETRN ESMTP command when > you connect to the net. It does require that you have a "static" IP > address though. Does it mean creating individual accounts on either of the servers? If so it is not possible / feasible. My internet access provider gives me just one e-mail id whereas my hosting service accumulates all mail address to *@mydomain.dom to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > - Use some other transport such as UUCP over TCP - the session can be > initiated from your end and messages transfered in either/both > directions in a single session. Never used before and not sure whether either provider supports this option. But I will check it out any way. > - Use individual mailboxes at the provider for all your users, and have > fetchmail retrieve the mail from them and deliver locally (the > recipient information is implicit from the identity of the mailbox). This is soomething which seems impossible as of now. > --Per Some where I have read that u can instruct sendmail to deliver mail based on deliver-to: feild in mail headers. does any thing like that exists? If so do u have any idea or pointer? Thanks for taking persional interest and replying so promptly. --Dinesh Shah :-) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dineshah.tripod.com To subscribe / unsubscribe goto the site www.ilug-bom.org ., click on the mailing list button and fill the appropriate information and submit. For any other queries contact the ML maintener
