RE: Solved! Re: [cobalt-users] SMTP relays no matter what!

["Dan Kriwitsky" <webhosting@xxxxxxxxx>]

> As much of a convenience as this may SEEM to be; this is
> wrong wrong wrong (did I mention it's wrong?) behavior and
> they SHOULD NOT take it upon themselves to interfere with
> the intended operation of my services. It's basically hijacking
> the mail, however good the intent might be. I could improve
> my mailman's accuracy by going box to box in my neighborhood
> and correcting his frequent misdeliveries; but I'd be in jail
> before long; and rightly so.
>

I'm not sure I understand? Your ISP doesn't want you connecting to other
ISPs via SMTP. Their network, their rules. In this way all SMTP traffic from
them only comes from mail.whatever.com and other ISPs know it's probably not
spam since their users can't abuse an open relay in .kr or .jp running
Sendmail 8.6 to disguise the point of origin of the email.
As for the "operation of my services" (If I understand what you mean by
services), I would suggest you don't try to run services on a dialup or
residential ISP. I think you'll find that there are alternatives.
--
Dan Kriwitsky