[PLUG] postfix question PART 2

[r0bbY russell aka MaTcHBoY]

i've dug around the main.cf file and didn't come across anything like this
yet... at least nothing specific.
can you point me to any references you might know of?


----- Original Message -----
From: "Derek Loree" <derek at infotects.com>
To: <plug at lists.pdxlinux.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2002 1:43 PM
Subject: Re: [PLUG] postfix question PART 2


> On Tue, 2002-06-25 at 13:09, r0bbY russell aka MaTcHBoY wrote:
> > Ok, got that working..
> > Now I am curious if I can use a smtp server remotely to relay email. I'm
> > sure this is possible.. and probably just needs me to turn something on.
> > Right now I am using my companies mail server for my outgoing email...
for
> > my personal email address which is a different email service. I want to
do
> > all my outgoing mail through my personal server which is located
elsewhere.
> > How can I can I allow a few IP addresses to use the server to send mail
> > (relay)?
>
> You have a couple of options, one is ip based, only certain machines are
> allowed to relay, the other is user authentication.  The latter one uses
> machine accounts and passwords to verify authentication, the advantage
> is that any user with an account on the machine is able to relay from
> where ever, but it cannot be used by anyone else as a relay.  The
> disadvantage of the latter one is that the users email client must
> support authentication of smtp.  Most modern mailers do.
>
> I don't remember specifics, but I do remember that I was surprised at
> how easy it was to implement (I've configured server both ways).
>
> HTH
>
> Derek Loree
>
>
>
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