smtp

You Wrote:

> [ Does bh do smtp? -d ]

The short answer is, not yet.  Sendmail by default prevents
external connections from "relaying" mail through the localhost.  You
can get around this (sort of) by adding them to
/etc/mail/relay-domains, but this doesn't really fix anything,
especially if it has to be done for each user.  

Apparently it is possible, using SMTP AUTH, to restrict relays to
those users providing a password.  I'm looking into this, and should
have a more definitive answer in a few days...

Note that you can use other hosts for smtp as well - i.e. if you have
an account at mydomain.com which you can send mail from, you can often
specify it as the outgoing agent.

If no one beats me to it, i'll try and get cvs up in the next few days
as well...


> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: outgoing mail using outlook ex.
> Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 15:10:40 -0800
> To: David VanHorn <[email protected]>
>  
> D,
> 
>  Is it possible to use Outlook Express to SEND my bh.org email?  I entered in
> "your.ballistichelmet.org" for the outgoing SMTP mail server but it doesn't
> seem to want to send my emails.  Sorry to bother you with petty computer
> questions.  Hope things are going well up there.