Hi,

I am slowly trying to migrate from windoze world into linux world. Tiz a painful process.

I created my own mailserver on my linux box. To the best of my knowledge it is working fine. My laptop has windows, and i use oulookexpress (pop3) as my mailclient. sendmail is running on the linux box.

when i am on my local network, i can send and receive emails just fine from both the linux box and the laptop. only if i leave my local network, and take my laptop on the road i run into problems. I can pull my email from the server without a problem, but i cannot send. The error that i get points me to "relaying denied".

I have played with both "access" and "relay-domains" file and no dice. Ports (25 and 110) are working fine coz i can send just fine from within the local network.

Any pointer would be fantastic

thanks

andreja

I'm not really sure but:

Isn't it a matter of firewall? Do you have any running on the linux box?
Don't you have to authenticate, in order to send mail?
If your mail server can relay from inside the local net, but not from outside, maybe its some security setting.
How about your ISP?

Relaying mail has been considered a potentially dangerous breach, and a bandwidth vortex, for spammers. These guys scan the whole internet, looking for open relays. Take a look at this:
www.ordb.net

Hi. Did you find a solution Andreja? I have same problem. They can receive mail (pop3, port 110), but they cannot send using smtp (port 25, same as sendmail server uses). Locally I can send and receive from windows outlook express, and they can send to the users of my local area network, but they cannot send to others, like hotmail from their computers (their computers are not on my local area network, but in other towns and coutries).

They use Windows Outlook express by the way, and have normal ISP (modem or ADSL with no fixed IP). Is it a safe way (without being an open relay) to let them send mail to, say, hotmail, via my server (I thought to send it through my server so that the mails they send doesn't go to the junk mail because some spam filter DNS failure, my domain and their ISP does not match.. And I use a ISP too, with the MX record of my domain name pointing towards my IP address )