mail server from Windows to FreeBSD

Roland Smith rsmith at xs4all.nl
Mon Mar 10 22:05:22 UTC 2008


On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 03:39:01PM -0400, Gerard wrote:
> > > And one last thing, how can deliver all mail messages from Outlook
> > > Express client from Windows machine to FreeBSD mail server machine?
> > 
> > You can set the FreeBSD machine as the outgoing mail server in
> > Outlook. But this might not work, depending on your set-up. If you
> > relay the mail to your ISP's mailserver, it probably won't handle
> > incoming mail from addresses outside his domain.
> 
> Unless there is some weird firewall, I don't see what the problem would
> be.

A lot of ISPs don't relay anymore because of spam. Say your ISP is
foobar.com. Their mail server where clients can drop their outgoing mail
will only accept mail coming from @foobar.com addresses. Since the original
poster mentioned people collecting mail (and assumingly sending) from
different ISPs (not the one the OP is on) they would run into this problem.

Roland
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