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Title: Using ESmith-Server as relay for special host?
Post by: thomas on April 09, 2001, 10:16:14 PM

Hi folks,

I've got an host with a dynamic-ip-address out there which can't send mail (through sendmail) 'cause of his dynamic-ip.
So I would like to use my e-smith-server (also with dynamic-IP but working EMail) as an mail-relay for that other server.

Is this possible? How?

Thanks a lot

Thomas

Title: Re: Using ESmith-Server as relay for special host?
Post by: Paul Miller on April 14, 2001, 02:28:21 AM

thomas wrote:
>
> Hi folks,
>
> I've got an host with a dynamic-ip-address out there which
> can't send mail (through sendmail) 'cause of his dynamic-ip.
He might be able to by using one of the dynamic ip services e-smith mentions in the manual.
> So I would like to use my e-smith-server (also with
> dynamic-IP but working EMail) as an mail-relay for that other
> server.
>
> Is this possible? How?
You can set it up to do that but you have to be careful when you allow relaying because spammers will use you to hide their identity.  I would expect you could find info on how successful people have been with this on the internet. Keywords I would look for include:

blackhole
spam
relay
norelay

Here is a link discussing pros and cons for qmail.

http://summersault.com/chris/techno/qmail/qmail-antispam.html
 
Regards,
Paul Miller