[CLUE-Admin] Re: CLUE-Tech post from admin@clue.denver.co.us requires approval

Lynn Danielson lynnd at techangle.com
Tue Aug 5 11:08:18 MDT 2003


Dave Hahn wrote:

>Perhaps a bit of clarification is in order:
>
>If we have e-mail aliases that point, for instance,
>lynn.danielson at clue... To lynnd at lynnshouse.com the clue related mail
>server would automatically forward to lynnd at lynnshouse.com.  In this
>case, Lynn should be allowed to relay via his ISPs smtp server and not
>need to utilize the CLUE smtp server for outgoing mail.  The appropriate
>addressing is reliant on Lynn's e-mail software to craft the headers
>correctly.  Most e-mail software that allows multiple e-mail addresses
>allows the user to select the sending account/personality from which to
>address the e-mail.  So, in this case, no sending access to the CLUE
>smtp server is required.  However, this does give, in the e-mail
>headers, the hint that the mail did not originate from the CLUE server,
>but was relayed through another SMTP server.  Although this is an item
>of note, it is not, typically, a big deal.  However, in order to allow
>outside users to relay via the CLUE smtp server (i.e. to correct the
>"headers problem", the sender needs to (1) originate from a known IP
>address or (2) authenticate to the server first.  A third option, albeit
>more inconvenient, would be to allow sending from a web based solution
>only.  
>
>Overall, we need to decide how we expect the e-mail aliases to be used.
>I expect, the relaying via the users' ISP is the easiest.
>

You're right, when I use lynn.danielson at clue.denver.co.us I send it 
eiher through Techangle's
or IHS's smtp server and specify the clue address as my from & 
reply-to.  I don't think I've
ever used the clue box smtp server directly unless I was doing something 
on the box.  There
must be a way to set up user/passwd authentication on sendmail.  Are we 
going to be using
sendmail on the new box?

Lynn





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