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From: Scott Kitterman (no email)
Date: Thu Mar 01 2007 - 17:13:20 EST
On Thursday 01 March 2007 17:09, Trevor Antczak wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Alright, with the understanding that what I want to do here is a violation
> of good policies, I have question. Here=B9s the background:
>
> I run a mailserver for my company here (lite3d.com). We=B9re a high tech
> typ= e
> place, and most of our users have laptops and high speed networks at home.
> They=B9d like to be able to do work from home, but the problem is that most
> o= f
> them (us really) have Cox highspeed internet, which will not allow you to
> hook up to remote mailservers through its network. You have to send all
> o= f
> your mail through smtp.east.cox.net or it doesn=B9t leave their network (I
> suppose one could set up a mailserver that listens on a non-standard port
> and bypass this, but it=B9s probably not worth the effort). Cox will allow
> you to use whatever you want for a =B3from=B2 or =B3reply-to=B2 header, so
> at least one of my users had the bright idea to setup an alternate SMTP in
> her clien= t
> to use the Cox server, but put her business address in the =B3from=B2
> header. It works fine UNLESS she tries to send mail to someone local to our
> domain.
A better answer would probably be to enable the submission port (587) and have
your users submit mail to your server that way.
Scott K
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