[WBEL-users] SMTP Issue

[John Hinton]

Josh Welch wrote:

>>Ok, that does make it work.. but in the past I didn't have to open
>>relays for each individual user's IP.. an impossible task given the
>>dialup world. Has something changed in sendmail that no longer allows an
>>authentication of a user via user/pass which will allow them to use for
>>instance their hosted domain name to send mail through our server?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>John Hinton
>>    
>>
>
>Not just with sendmail, something has changed with the net in general, open
>relays pose an inviting target for spammers and will insure that most people
>start rejecting mail from your server within a matter of hours. If you want
>to allow people outside of a network that you run to be able to relay
>through the server, setup SMTP AUTH, preferably with TLS enabled to keep
>passwords secure. Sendmail.org has lots of info on this.
>
>HTH,
>Josh
>
>  
>
That's what I've been working on. Seems I'm missing something and it's 
driving me nuts. I earlier asked the question "Has anybody successfully 
setup a WBEL server doing this?"

After hours and hours and hours of Googling over the last week, I find 
lots of questions, several tutorials... I've followed what I've found to 
the tee... and just can't get it working. Sendmail receives, sendmail 
receives on IP listed as RELAY. DNS is working... I just can't get 
smtp-auth/tls to authorize a connection.

Thanks for the reply... I'm on the right path.. just can't seem to get 
anywhere.

John Hinton