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

[Scott Lambdin]

How is this going to help with port 25 filtering problem?  What am I
missing?

--Scott

On 7/10/07, Matt Frye <mattfrye at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks for the clarification, Tanner.
>
> On 7/9/07, Tanner Lovelace <clubjuggler at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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/
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> > increscent, all sable.
> >
> >
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