On Mar 22, 2007, at 5:05 AM, Dogsbody wrote:
>
>>>> I am interested in relaying outbound mail through an account at
>>>> my ISP, since I'm running this from home and the IP is listed as
>>>> in the dynamic pool.
>>>
>>> Just add your ISP mail server under Network Services, Email,
>>> Advanced, Smart Relay Server and your all done :-)
>> OK, I have BQ up, and I still don't quite see how this feature
>> will work for me:
>> Since my ISP isn't an open relay (I hope), I need to provide a
>> user account and password to send through.
>> I set this up under NetBSD but I'm not seeing a way to do this
>> from the GUI (the user and pass for the outbound "relay" server)?
>
> Brian,
>
> I'm posting this back to the BQ mailing list as you have a very
> good point.
>
> The BQ GUI currently only allows you to set up an open (restricted
> by IP address to their customers) relay as a smarthost. You are
> correct, there is no where to put the username & password.
>
> List, this sounds like a great extra little feature to add to BQ!?
> (I wish we had somewhere to log it).
I'd been emailing with Howie as well about this, but hadn't had time
to test anything yet. Darn real job....
With some luck (sendmail is harder for me than postfix) I can
configure sendmail to relay through my ISP-provided account, but I'd
be testing two things at once (can I get the config edited right, and
will this edit break the GUI/ the GUI break the edit/ edit be
corrected with the next update/ etc).
For "real" users with business accounts or better it's not an issue,
you'd (better!) be static or in a position for the ISP to config
their server for you, but for home/casual use... it's something that
needs a workaround.
Right now I'd just like to get this thing set up and have admin
notifications go to mail accounts I check often. I could forward
them through gmail or other workarounds, I think gmail still accepts
inbound server traffic from dynamic IP blocks, but I haven't checked
for a while. So it isn't likely a deal-breaker but it isn't tidy.
Brian