Topic: Routing: SME "catches" outgoing SMTP connections?

[whte_rbt]

Hi,

I've got problems using an external SMTP host with mailclients in my local net via SME. It seems that the routing/firewall part of SME "catches" all connections to be established to external SMTP hosts.

Because of switching from a dedicated ISDN to a SDSL connection with dynamic IP, my SME is no longer able to send SMTP directly to reciepient's SMTP hosts. - Yes, there would be the option to setup the SME to relay over my ISPs SMTP, but my one want me to authenticate and SME doesn't offer such functionality.

So I thought I simply configure the mailclients themselve to use my ISPs SMTP, because they can authenticate, even via SSL, what would do me a favor. -- But no way: It seems that SME doesn't let them do so.

Any idea of how to manipulate iptables or so to make my mailclients luckier?

 

Thanks so much.

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http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=18867.0

Oh, your English is excellent. It's much better than most native English speakers on the internet who either too lazy to use correct English; didn't pay enough attention at school; or are simply too dumb to gain a mastery of their own language, let alone another language.

[whte_rbt]

Thank you for the link. I searched the forum for the issue but without useful results. -- Thought its just a matter of fact that SME (6.0 by the way) is acting as discribed, but hadn't the idea that there's a built-in proxy to create such unusual (to me) function.

Thanks again for the compliments. - And to all: Please misunderstand the voting: This forum offered me that spicy poll feature and so I thought "Lets try it. Along the question you can get feedback from native speakers and also bring a bit fun to this forum." - But I didn't compute that the whole post then will appear as a poll, putting my main question in the background. Sorry for that, wont do it again.  

[schirrms]

Hi,

From my point of view, your English is really great !

I really would have the same...

Not to speak about my german
Gutten tag, auf wiedershen (I think it's almost all the remaining of nine -boring- years of german at school )

Tchuss,
(Regards),
Pascal

[raem]

To simplify it further, see the v6.0 release notes, excerpt below

- A transparent SMTP proxy has been added, to force all outgoing SMTP
  connections to go through the SME server. This feature enhances security
  with respect to viruses and worms that use SMTP to propagate themselves.

  If you wish to disable this proxy, you can do so via:

  /sbin/e-smith/config setprop smtpfront-qmail Proxy disabled
  /sbin/e-smith/signal-event remoteaccess-update

[whte_rbt]

Hi Pascal,

thank you, but I think its the same about my french as it is about your german. They bored me only four years in this subject, but they did, at school.

While the relationship between France and Germany is as good as it hasn't been anytime before in history, finally something has to change this boring educational reality.  

Salut,

whte_rbt

[schirrms]

Hi whte_rbt

(I think we're now totally out of topic   )

Thinks are already changing between Germany and France:
the younger the people are, the best they know how to speak together ... in English

Tchuss,