SMTP Serve and outgoin mail

[olaf.krause]

I need a step by step tutorial how to set up the wingate email servers.

OK not for all. POP3 is working. Local mail is also working. But I cannot send external mail. The SMPT server accepts the mails:
SMTP In: 1 message revieved from...
But it does not send it to the SMTP server of my ISP.
SMTP remote: 0 messages delivered to xyz.
I also do not find where to set up the auth for the ISPs mail server (it requires auth)!

any help would be appreciated

thx

[adrien]

WinGate's SMTP server does not support AUTH for outbound mail

However, you don't need to send mail to your ISPs mail server - WinGate will deliver it directly to the other end, which is all the ISP's server would have done anyway.. unless you are on a dialup?

Adrien

[olaf.krause]

Yes, I use a dial up connection (ISDN). There is an option (allow delivery to trigger dialer). I will try if this also works without setting a gateway.

Best regards

Olaf

[olaf.krause]

OK it works without gateway (the dialup connection will be established) - the online help confused me a little bit. See also "AOL and sending emails" in the forum.

thx

Olaf

[olaf.krause]

Hi adrien,

OK sending in principal seems OK, but some target host do not accept dynamic IP-adresses:

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Delivery failure
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Your message has encountered delivery problems to the following recipients:

removed@test.de


Reason: SMTP Remote: Message 0000000663 not sent, no recipients accepted

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A transcript of the session follows
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* Beginning processing of domain test.de
* Domain MX record lookup succeeded
* Attempting connection to mail2.test.de. succeeded
<= 220 mail2.test.de ESMTP Postfix
=> HELO nostromo.research.ok-edv.de
<= 250 mail2.test.de
=> MAIL FROM:<olaf.krause@ok-edv.de>
<= 250 Ok
=> RCPT TO:<removed@test.de>
<= 571 Service unavailable; [217.2.84.168] blocked using dynablock.easynet.nl, reason: Dynamic/Residential IP range listed by easynet.nl DynaBlock - http://dynablock.easynet.nl/errors.html
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since I use a dialup conn I always have a dynamic =>
I have to use my ISPs mail server, but therefor I need smtp auth immediately - or do you have any other ideas?

Regards

Olaf

[adrien]

hmmmm ok, I see the problem.

Looks like we will need to put AUTH support into WinGate.

Otherwise you would need to use a TCP mapping to pipe through to your ISP SMTP server, and AUTH directly between your mail client(s) and your ISP's server, but then you lose the spooling aspect.

Adrien

[adrien]

Also - do you know which AUTH method your ISP requires? Is it CRAM-MD5, or PLAIN?

Adrien

[olaf.krause]

AFAIK plain. I need it not only because of the spooling effect. It also decreases the administration load because I don't have to set up the auth settings for each account/email client (as I would have to do if I would use a mapping)

Olaf

[adrien]

I looked into the mail delivery code, and it would be a bit of work to put support for AUTH in, although I realise this will be necessary.

So, would you be interested in testing a new engine that I can put together for this?

Adrien

[olaf.krause]

Of course just send the beta version to my email address.

[adrien]

OK, will take me realistically a couple of days to get it in there and tested.

Adrien