Can someone tell me what a "mail domain gateway" is?

2015-08-31 Thread Bernard Higonnet
Hello, I have some notion about what email is, about what a domain is, and about what a gateway (routing) is, but I don't know what a "mail domain gateway" is. I have searched for this and I am getting a lot of information to the effect that "On a mail domain # gateway, you should also inclu

RE: Can someone tell me what a "mail domain gateway" is?

2015-08-31 Thread Wolfe, Robert
IIRC, this is just a fancy name for mail server :) From: owner-postfix-us...@postfix.org [owner-postfix-us...@postfix.org] on behalf of Bernard Higonnet [bth...@higonnet.net] Sent: Monday, August 31, 2015 10:50 AM To: postfix-us...@cloud9.net Subject: Can

Re: Can someone tell me what a "mail domain gateway" is?

2015-08-31 Thread Wietse Venema
Bernard Higonnet: > Hello, > > I have some notion about what email is, about what a domain is, and Right-hand side of email address. > about what a gateway (routing) is, but I don't know what a "mail domain > gateway" is. Typically the host(s) that receive(s) email from the internet to a part

Re: Can someone tell me what a "mail domain gateway" is?

2015-08-31 Thread Bernard Higonnet
So, for a machine running a mail server NOT to be a "mail domain gateway" it does not receive mail from the Internet for a particular domain AND does not host a mail server receiving/sending mail within a domain? What kinds of hosts/mail servers are not a "mail domain gateway? There are times

Re: Can someone tell me what a "mail domain gateway" is?

2015-08-31 Thread Wietse Venema
Bernard Higonnet: > So, for a machine running a mail server NOT to be a "mail domain > gateway" it does not receive mail from the Internet for a particular > domain AND does not host a mail server receiving/sending mail within a > domain? > What kinds of hosts/mail servers are not a "mail domai

Re: Quick question

2015-08-31 Thread Peter
On 08/29/2015 03:48 AM, Peter L. Berghold wrote: > I know you can bind smptd to a specific address for outgoing email. Is > it possible (or even feasible) to run multiple smtpd sessions, tying > each one to a specific IP address and routing email based on domain > name? Yes, and examples of how t

Re: Deliver mail from ssmtp without authenticating?

2015-08-31 Thread Grant
>> Can I have ssmtp send mail from my laptop to my remote postfix mail >> server without authenticating if the mail is to be delivered to >> dovecot on the same server? > > Yes, if the ISP for the network you're connected todoes not block > port 25, and for some reason your server is not blocking d

Re: Deliver mail from ssmtp without authenticating?

2015-08-31 Thread Viktor Dukhovni
On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 06:04:58PM -0700, Grant wrote: > OK, SASL it is. I'm actually already using saslauthd but was hoping I > could turn it off since I'm using webmail now. Is switching from > saslauthd to dovecot's SASL a worthwhile endeavor if I'm already using > dovecot for IMAP? You can

Re: Can someone tell me what a "mail domain gateway" is?

2015-08-31 Thread Martin Skjöldebrand
On Mon, 2015-08-31 at 17:50 +0200, Bernard Higonnet wrote: > Hello, > > I have some notion about what email is, about what a domain is, and > about what a gateway (routing) is, but I don't know what a "mail > domain > gateway" is. As already indicated it's usually the server(s) recieving mail