Re: setting up mail server
On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 04:12:16PM -0800, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Jan 2002, Wayne Topa wrote:
>
> > > Thanks for the reply about setting up smarthost. I reconfigured exim
> > > for that and It works. But now All mail sent out from the machine
> > > gets bounced, saying:
> > >
> > >
> > > Remote host said: 550 relaying to <me@domain.net> prohibited by
> > > administrator
> > It doesn't know who me is. You have to alias me to whoever your ISP
> > knows as me.
>
> Actually, it means they won't let you send email without using the email
> address your ISP provides you. Best suggestion: Switch ISPs to one
> that sucks less.
Of course they are going to not allow other e-mail addresses to be used! Otherwise
their smarthost becomes a spamhost.
- Adam
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