On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 15:05 +0100, Laurie Miles wrote:
> http://www.defoam.net/software/smtp.nhsnet.howto.html
>
> So Midge - this is version 1.2, June 2003. Do you have any updates to this?
Actually, if you read to the end, it is version 1.3 May 2005
but that was a small updating.
I suspect that the NHS SMTP forwarding services look up servers that
want to pass them mail using the DNS.
whois or dig will check the entries there, probably dig MX is the most
significant command. (You can do them on WIndows, if it isn't easy they
are available AFAIK under Cygwin, which is handy to run on a Windows
machine.)
In order to send mail out, one probably has to have an MX record
pointing to one's mail exchanger.
I think they are now also running SMTP AUTH, which allows various
authentication systems. It would be interesting to know the exact
requirements.
My understanding was that Practices such as mine, which had for a long
time been running SMTP services, and have an NHS domain name, didn't
need to do anything, but that new ones would require authentication set
up.
THe NHSIA office for doing this (details in the how-to) has seeme
helpful and competent to me - when they get subsumed into
NPfIT/NHSCfH/Leeds is not something I know.
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Adrian Midgley <[log in to unmask]>
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