As long as the traffic was coming from a BS IP address it didn't seem to care in my experience. I just set up sendmail to smart host outbound SMTP through BS and it was happy. I would guess it authenticated me through the network log-in and didn't care beyond that point.
DS -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Rasch Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2004 1:27 PM To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Re: Port 25 blocked On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 01:17:12PM -0400, Stephen Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I agree...to a point...if you can't send email out port 25...then is > there really a worry about you becoming an open relay...I say open > inbound 25 and keep outgoing closed. This way should someone make a > mistake and be open to the world, BS will catch it because you can > only smart relay through them, you'll be pushing thousands of emails > through THEIR server a day... > > Then punish the HELL out of that fool! > > My $.02 the problem I had with this plan is that their server only allowed relaying of messages from @bellsouth.net addresses (and their associated subsidiaries). David -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
