I'm doing the same thing, but I'm using sendmail. I found that some sites were blocking the address ranges of Road Runner users, but I haven't seen anyone blocking Road Runners mail servers. RR allows me to relay off them because the message is coming from one of their ip's (just like a user sending mail with Outlook Express) I had to create a couple of entries in my /etc/mail/mailertable like the following: aol.com smtp:smtp-server.mn.rr.com netscape.net smtp:smtp-server.mn.rr.com mn.rr.com smtp:smtp-server.mn.rr.com Basically what this is telling sendmail is that for aol.com addresses forward those messages to smtp-server.mn.rr.com using smtp. The Road Runner server then forwards the mail onto the approriate location. Hope this helps Jim > Hi, > > I'm running a small shop in my house for providing email/web hosting for > a couple domains for friends, nonprofits, etc. I'm using Road Runner as > my provider on a business class account. Mostly mjust want to learn how > all this stuff works and at the same time make a buck or two. > > My mail server is qmail. What I'm finding is that mail to certain > addresses are getting bounced back because Road Runner's SMTP server > relays the mail and the destination is configured to block everything > from rr.com. The googling I've done points to configuring qmail to use > a smarthost by setting up smtproutes, but I'm a bit at a loss as to how > to do this. As usual, the qmail documentaion is somewhat cryptic (to me > anyway). Does this imply finding out from Road Runner what their > smarthost SMTP server is and putting that in smtproutes? Or can I > somehow tell qmail that my box is the smarthost? > > Ideally I'd like my SMTP server to not even talk to Road Runner's, but > I'm not sure if this is possible. > > Any thoughts/suggestions? > > Josh > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list