[TriLUG] Fwd: mail relay through trilug.org?

[Tanner Lovelace]

Oops.  It's been quite a long time since I managed
to mail back the original poster rather than the list.
Oh well, probably about time I screwed up something like
that. :-)

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Tanner Lovelace <clubjuggler at gmail.com>
Date: Jul 9, 2007 11:55 PM
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] mail relay through trilug.org?
To: Matt Frye <mattfrye at gmail.com>


On 7/9/07, Matt Frye <mattfrye at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/9/07, Alan Porter <porter at trilug.org> wrote:
> > Does the trilug mail server allow relaying (for authorized users)?
>
> My first guess would be "no," and some basic testing doesn't tell me
> any differently.  Tanner Lovelace configured the mail server on our
> recent build (pilot) and can provide technical details.  Tanner -
> please correct me if I am wrong.
>
> Would we consider allowing relaying for authorized users?  Maybe, but
> not right now.  It's a bandwidth issue, more than anything; we have
> limited bandwidth at Inflow and until I can negotiate a bump up (which
> I am working on), there won't be any major changes to what users can
> push through the cluster.  I will keep you posted.

Well, unless it's broken, which is certainly possible, we have supported
SMTP AUTH ever since the mail server was set up.  So, the answer
would be yes.  If you log into the mail server with a username and password,
we have in the past relayed mail for our users.  Generally, this has meant
relaying directly from a mail client like Thunderbird, KMail or Pine, and not
relaying from Postfix, though.  So, the bandwidth involved is rather minimal
(especially since it's text and everyone doesn't e-mail continuously.  We've
never had a problem with a user sending large amounts of e-mail and if we
did I imagine that person would find their account suddenly yanked until
they could explain.

So, I wouldn't necessarily recommend configuring postfix to relay through
TriLUG, but configuring your mail client to relay through TriLUG has been
ok for quite a while now.

Cheers,
Tanner
--
Tanner Lovelace
clubjuggler at gmail dot com
http://wtl.wayfarer.org/
(fieldless) In fess two roundels in pale, a billet fesswise and an
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-- 
Tanner Lovelace
clubjuggler at gmail dot com
http://wtl.wayfarer.org/
(fieldless) In fess two roundels in pale, a billet fesswise and an
increscent, all sable.