Re: [qmailtoaster] smtp-auth and spf

[Jake Vickers]

Chris Marcellin wrote: Hi all; i have 2 questions if i may. first of all, smtp-auth replaces roaming users right, well, if i understand correctly, roaming users is users who can use a MUA outside of the domain, or outside a subnet of IP's of the local domain, or basically anywhere on the net, is this correct? and smtp-auth replaces roaming users, but, it authenticates first, right? is smtp-auth built in, or do i have to configure anything, i'm using the latest version of qmailtoaster. i pretty much read every thread on this site, and i came by a link on how to set up outlook, the link is http://www.itc.virginia.edu/desktop/email/smtpauth/outlookxp.html. but, at the end of that page, it mentions i should replace the standard smtp port to 587, does this apply to qmailtoaster as well, or was that for that particular site? and should i use a different port other than the typical smtp port. sorry for all the questions. the last question is regarding spf. i have set up my spf correctly, and i'm using the standard setting of 3, but, someone contacted me today that i know, and they told me that they sent me an email, and got a bounce telling them that it was an issue of spf. i looked in my smtp log file, and there was no mention of it. so, to make a long story short, i set my setting to 2 instead, then did a qmailctl stop, then qmailctl start, is this correct, or do i have to do restart another service or build a database? again, sorry for all the questions at once. What that website told you to do is pretty much what you need to do here as well. Make sure the box "my sever requires authentication" is ticked. QMail used to just let you send emails if you checked your email first, but this was replaced by logging in to send emails since this is a better method. You can leave the box for "use same settings as incoming server" checked, and there is no need to change ports. Many ISP's (and probably the site you looked at as well) are blocking port 25, in the hopes that this will reduce the amount of spam they get. Leave yours the way it is unless you have to change it for some reason. That SPF level (3) should have been good. Unless your friend's domain specifically failed his message then your machine would not have bounced it. Would it be possible to see the error message?