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want mail to be delivered to a local user on that mailserver, and you want
that local user to be able to send it out to the internet?  A default
installation of Sendmail 8.9 or higher will do that.  While I have to agree
that the other MTAs mentioned in this thread are more easy to configure, if
you're not going to be messing with it all the time or setting up complex
relaying features (i.e. for hosting POP or IMAP mail for remote users) then
Sendmail should be on equal footing as Qmail and whatnot.

If you decide to use Sendmail, both Google Groups and I are at your disposal
:)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Penne [mailto:epenne at yahoo.com]
> Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 4:19 PM
> To: olug at olug.org
> Subject: Re: [olug] Mail Relaying w/Filtering
> 
> 
> I have more info on what I need to do with the email server.  Using an
> authorization is not allowed (this time) because of changes that would
> need to take place in the base station code and then 
> distributing these
> changes.
> 
> This is pretty much a yes or no question also wanting a few keywords
> that I would need to look for on Google.
> 
> I want to configure a mail server that will allow incoming mail to be
> distributed to the local users.  One of the local users automatically
> runs scripts to parse the information on the incoming emails 
> and format
> it.  This user then automatically emails it back out to the outside
> world.  Is it possible to allow mail connections to "local users only"
> from the "anybody" in the outside world?  Is it also possible to allow
> "local users" to then email anybody in the outside world?  Is 
> there any
> mail servers that would do this better than others? What keywords
> should I look for in the configuration files?
> 
> I don't need a detailed explanation, unless your feeling generous.
> 
> Thanks
> Eric
> 
> PS I'm checking out the sendmail FAQ right now but figured I lob this
> question out to the list at the same time.  I'm not 
> completely lazy. :)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --- Phil Brutsche <phil at brutsche.us> wrote:
> > A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...
> > 
> > > We have base stations out in the field that collect data from our
> > > system.  These base stations (linux based 386) have ethernet,
> > serial,
> > > and modem connections.  The serial reads data from 
> another module. 
> > The
> > > ethernet and modem are used for communications with us.  The modem
> > can
> > > dial into our service provider and email the data it has.  The
> > service
> > > provider won't let us do the same thing through ethernet 
> because it
> > > does not orginate from inside thier system (ie not from 
> their modem
> > > pool).  We wnat to set up a mail relay system that we can use for
> > all
> > > email communication (modem and ethernet).  Of course we don't want
> > it
> > > to be open to the rest of the world.  Here is my question:  Can we
> > set
> > > up a relay that can filter the mail so that it must conform to a
> > > specific format or have a specific identifier in it?
> > 
> > Two words: SMTP AUTH
> > 
> > -- 
> > 
> > Phil Brutsche
> > phil at brutsche.us
> > 
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