On Friday 09 January 2004 12:45 pm, JoeHill wrote:

> Now set the LAN mail clients to pop the IP of the mailserver, and yer done.

Probably not quite.  If the users will be sending mail out and you are on a 
dial-up or dynamic IP connection with no DNS MX records, you may have to 
setup Postfix to relay mail through the ISP's mail server.  An awful lot of 
mail servers don't accept smtp traffic from dynamic IP ranges, or if the 
server is  not the MX of record for the domain.  That is assuming that your 
ISP is not totally blocking outgoing port 25 traffic, as does Earthlink and 
several other ISP's.

The other fix is to have the mail clients relay outgoing mail directly through 
the ISP but pop mail from the local server.  I prefer just getting Postfix to 
relay.

-- 
Bryan Phinney
Software Test Engineer


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