[ILUG] Stange Email Problems

[Paul Kelly :: Blacknight]

That's an ISP problem.

Lots of international ISP's only allow you to relay email through them,
this is to stop spammers from sending spam.

Paul

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ilug-bounces at linux.ie [mailto:ilug-bounces at linux.ie] On 
> Behalf Of Keith Davey
> Sent: 21 March 2005 10:04
> To: ilug at linux.ie
> Subject: [ILUG] Stange Email Problems
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I recently moved our company mail to a new machine with QMail 
> running on Redhat 9. Having always used closed source mail 
> servers before(Netscape Mail and Sun Mail server) I am not a 
> QMail expert but it has been easy enough to work with.
> 
> Everything appeared to be working fine, with all mail being 
> routed correctly and sending and receiving working for all 
> users, both from inside and outside our offices.
> 
> However, last week some people travelled abroad. If they 
> connected via a broadband connection everything works fine. 
> But if they connect via wireless or dialup they cannot send 
> mail to external addresses.
> 
> If I look at the logs in /var/qmail/current I don't see any 
> failed sending, and if I get their ip while dialed up and 
> check /var/qmail/smtpd/current I can't see a connection to 
> the server from that ip. 
> 
> Any ideas? Is there some sort of rule set up in QMail by 
> default that I should be aware of?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Keith
> 
> 
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