Re: [cobalt-developers] SMTP Email

["cbtrussell" <cbtrussell@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> We also have had users with mindspring/earthlink accounts not able to
receive
> their email that uses the aliases to forward mail to their earthlink
account. I
> was told by Sendmail we could upgrade to their SWITCH sendmail program for
only
> $3500.00 and that would fix it

Whoah there for a second. Earthlink/MindSpring is just blocking port 25,
forcing you to use their SMTP servers for outbound mail. You (and your
users) should be able to receive mail just fine on their domain via POP/port
110. (I have a MindSpring acct and have verified this firsthand) - but as
long as you're dialed up through MindSpring, you gotta use their mail server
to send mail.

Unless they're doing some fancy port forwarding (on the client side AND
server side), I don't know of anything that SWITCH buys you that will
eliminate this problem. Many ISP's are doing this now as a spam prevention
technique.

Brandon