[TriLUG] Fwd: mail relay through trilug.org?

[Matt Frye]

Thanks for the clarification, Tanner.

On 7/9/07, Tanner Lovelace <clubjuggler at gmail.com> wrote:
> Oops.  It's been quite a long time since I managed
> to mail back the original poster rather than the list.
> Oh well, probably about time I screwed up something like
> that. :-)
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Tanner Lovelace <clubjuggler at gmail.com>
> Date: Jul 9, 2007 11:55 PM
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] mail relay through trilug.org?
> To: Matt Frye <mattfrye at gmail.com>
>
>
> On 7/9/07, Matt Frye <mattfrye at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 7/9/07, Alan Porter <porter at trilug.org> wrote:
> > > Does the trilug mail server allow relaying (for authorized users)?
> >
> > My first guess would be "no," and some basic testing doesn't tell me
> > any differently.  Tanner Lovelace configured the mail server on our
> > recent build (pilot) and can provide technical details.  Tanner -
> > please correct me if I am wrong.
> >
> > Would we consider allowing relaying for authorized users?  Maybe, but
> > not right now.  It's a bandwidth issue, more than anything; we have
> > limited bandwidth at Inflow and until I can negotiate a bump up (which
> > I am working on), there won't be any major changes to what users can
> > push through the cluster.  I will keep you posted.
>
> Well, unless it's broken, which is certainly possible, we have supported
> SMTP AUTH ever since the mail server was set up.  So, the answer
> would be yes.  If you log into the mail server with a username and password,
> we have in the past relayed mail for our users.  Generally, this has meant
> relaying directly from a mail client like Thunderbird, KMail or Pine, and not
> relaying from Postfix, though.  So, the bandwidth involved is rather minimal
> (especially since it's text and everyone doesn't e-mail continuously.  We've
> never had a problem with a user sending large amounts of e-mail and if we
> did I imagine that person would find their account suddenly yanked until
> they could explain.
>
> So, I wouldn't necessarily recommend configuring postfix to relay through
> TriLUG, but configuring your mail client to relay through TriLUG has been
> ok for quite a while now.
>
> Cheers,
> Tanner
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