Subj : Illegal Relay
To   : Sentinel
From : Digital Man
Date : Tue Oct 11 2005 04:29 pm

  Re: Illegal Relay
  By: Sentinel to Frank Reid on Tue Oct 11 2005 12:36 pm

 >   Re: Illegal Relay
 >   By: Frank Reid to Sentinel on Tue Oct 11 2005 04:40 am
 > 
 >  >   Re: Illegal Relay
 >  >   By: Sentinel to All on Tue Oct 11 2005 00:37:00
 >  >
 >  >  > I finally got the mail server working before with 3.12 but I installed
 >  >  > install of 3.13 and for some reason I'm getting illegal relay attempt 
 >  >  > trying to send through the mail server to other hostnames.  It does wo
 >  >  > sending through the hostname that the server runs on.  I have gone thr
 >  >  > the settings and also tried the relay.can file.  Still can't relay to 
 >  >  > hostnames.  Not sure what to change to get it working.  Thanks in adva
 >  >
 >  > In ctrl/sbbs.ini, look for the [Mail] section of the configuration and en
 >  > the information for your ISP SMTP server in the "RelayServer" line.  This
 >  > the server they provided for your normal email as configured in Outlook
 >  > Express or whatever you use.  If you have to authenticate to send mail to
 >  > ISP (not typical), then you can also add information to the RelayUsername
 >  > RelayPassword parameters.  If you do, you'll probably need to add one of 
 >  > RELAY_* options to the Options line, too.
 >  >
 >  > There's probably an easier place to do this inside the Windows configurat
 >  > GUI, but I'm not familiar with that.
 >  >
 >  >
 > 
 > Hi Frank,
 > 
 > Thanks for the feedback.  I'm actually trying to use direct delivery with th
 > sbbs mail server.  I have inputed the DNS of my internet connection to the m
 > server configuration and have put my ip address into a file called relay.can

text/relay.can was renamed to ctrl/relay.cfg in v3.10. See docs/v310_new.txt
for details.

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