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Les -
Clearly this subject is moving off-topic for this list, but as a novice
administrator for a small office I need to ask for some additional
clarification on your advice. In your last sentence you state that if the
openvpn connection is not known by the mail server, I will have to fix that
up, or set up authentication. How would I fix it up, or how would I set up
authentication? With the amount of information I provided on my setup I
don't expect you to be able to provide an specifics, but can you give me
some general guidance, and terms that I can use to do some further searching
on google and find documentation to read? Anything will help here. Thanks.
Jeff
----- Original Message -----
From: "Les Mikesell" <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Jeff Boyce" <jboyce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <openvpn-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 1:28 PM
Subject: Re: [Openvpn-users] Road Warrior email sending
> Jeff Boyce wrote:
>
>> I just set up my first road warrior openvpn laptop client and am having
>> one minor problem with regards to emailing. The client is running
>> Windows Vista and Openvpn 2.0.9. The server is RedHat Linux also running
>> Openvpn 2.0.9.
>>>From a public access wifi point, the client is able to access the
>>>internet
>> and remotely access the office Samba server running on the same box as
>> Openvpn. They are also able to receive email through their standard
>> Windows Mail client program. However, they are unable to send mail from
>> the Windows Mail client program. When this laptop is in the office and
>> is connected to the local network, sending and receiving mail works
>> correctly through the Windows mail client. I am assuming that I need to
>> make some change in the laptops Openvpn configuration file, or a routing
>> tweak. How do other part time road warriors set up their system so that
>> email works the same whether in the office, or outside with remote
>> access?
>
> Mail servers normally accept mail from anywhere if the destination is the
> local domain, but restrict access to a known IP range or senders
> authenticated with SMTP AUTH if the destination is remote. If the address
> of your openvpn connection is not known by the mail server you'll have to
> fix that or set up authentication.
>
> --
> Les Mikesell
> lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
>
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