SMTP question. Sendmail, RH 7.3

[Bruce Dawson]

On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 14:29, Jason wrote:
> I have a client in MN who uses qwest as his isp. I host his site and email
> and until yesterday at 3 pm he was able to send and receive just fine. His
> POP address is domain.com and his smtp address was something.qwest.net. In
> his calls to qwest he is getting the usual runaround "you can't just use our
> smtp server, you have to have a qwest email account and send/receive from
> that account". What has changed? is there anything I can do aside from open
> my server up to relay for every qwest customer in MN? Please help quick!
> Sorry if this is OT, running RH 7 with sendmail. Please forgive any
> misterminology.

I'm not sure what QWEST's set up is, but it sounds bug-ridden -
especially if they want him to upgrade his Outlook client. However, if
you have him point his SMTP server to your server, and put his IP
address in your /etc/mail/access file with RELAY, then he should be able
to use your SMTP server. (Don't forget to run 'make').

Also, if your /etc/mail/sendmail.mc file has FEATURE(`genericstable') in
it, then you can probably "masquerade" his outgoing mail as his domain.
You'll have to read the genericstable entry in
/usr/share/doc/sendmail/README.cf for more details - let me know if you
have any questions.

--Bruce
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