>why are you doing that ? imho, you should not redirect port 25 traffic so >that users that already have a valid smtp gateway can use it directly. you >should also have your own enable smtp gateway for users that cannot use an >external mta. Hi Davide, The problem is that hotel guests have all sorts of different mail settings. For example one guest may be from Germany and his smtp settings are smtp.localisp.de another guests may be from Zimbabwe and her smtp settings will be smtp.localisp.zw. If I did not do SMTP redirection, the guest would try to send email, their computer would connect to their ISP's smtp server, and their SMTP server would most likely give a '550 relay denied' error. When I transparently redirect port 25, the person does not have to change their smtp server. Their mail automatically gets redirected to the xmail server, then the xmail server sends the email. The user has no idea what is going on in the background, they just know that their email was sent. This works very well for 95% of of the hotel guests. The problem with the other 5% of guests is that they may have SMTP-AUTH enabled, and when the transparent redirection takes place, the local xmail server does not accept the user name and password. In an ideal world, everyone would have smtp-auth enabled and I would not have to do SMTP redirection, but unfortunately this being a hotel, most of the users are from all over and they all have different settings. Also, the hotel is VERY opposed to having the guests change ANYTHING on their computer, even IP addresses, mail settings etc... So you can see the problem I have. :) Anyways, I certainly am not asking you to change your program (which is the best MTA I have found btw) but I am wondering if there is some setting I can change to permit any username/password combo to work. Thanks for your help. Riaz... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
