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Dan LaSota

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May 10, 2002, 11:03:54 AM5/10/02
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Hi Everyone,

I have a user who has begun to forward all of his email to one of my
domains. Any mail that is sent to his pobox.com account thus gets
sent to one of his accounts on my machine.

The problem is that my machine won't accept the mail because it
hasn't been authenticated and it thinks pobox.com is trying to do a
relay.

Why is that when the ultimate recipient is one of my users?

Is this something I need to fix or should I begin talking with
postm...@pobox.com?

Thanks,


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Kee Hinckley

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May 10, 2002, 11:25:55 AM5/10/02
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At 8:03 AM -0700 5/10/02, Dan LaSota wrote:
>Hi Everyone,
>
>I have a user who has begun to forward all of his email to one of my
>domains. Any mail that is sent to his pobox.com account thus gets
>sent to one of his accounts on my machine.
>
>The problem is that my machine won't accept the mail because it
>hasn't been authenticated and it thinks pobox.com is trying to do a
>relay.

This sounds an awful lot like the recently mentioned problem with
QuickBooks Pro.


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Dan LaSota

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May 10, 2002, 3:37:11 PM5/10/02
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>Could you elaborate on this?
>Do you mean with a "Relay" record or something else?

Yes please elaborate on this. It doesn't seem like pobox.com is doing
anything wrong (but I am a newbie mail admin). I just don't know why
cgp won't just deliver the damn message to my users local mailbox.
(It does for other stuff).

Thanks,


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Dan LaSota
AE data
693 Manchester Loop
Fairbanks, AK 99712
(907) 479-0650
d...@ae-data.com
http://www.ae-data.com

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Kee Hinckley

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May 10, 2002, 3:45:12 PM5/10/02
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At 11:37 AM -0800 5/10/02, Dan LaSota wrote:
>>Could you elaborate on this?
>>Do you mean with a "Relay" record or something else?
>
>Yes please elaborate on this. It doesn't seem like pobox.com is
>doing anything wrong (but I am a newbie mail admin). I just don't
>know why cgp won't just deliver the damn message to my users local
>mailbox. (It does for other stuff).

I didn't think this was true (and it certainly doesn't seem to be the
case in my configuration), but could it be that CGP is rejecting
messages that come "From" an internal user when the mail is from
outside the network, and the user has not been authenticated--even if
the destination is a CGP user? I shouldn't have thought this
mattered if the destination was a CGP user, but perhaps there are
times when it does?

As a test, go somewhere outside your network and attempt to send mail
by hand, e.g.

telnet yourmailserver 25
helo somthingorother
mail from:<cgpuser@yourdomain>
rcpt to:<othercgpuser@yourdomain>
data
From: foo
To: foo
Subject: bar

asdf

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