Re: [cobalt-users] SMTP on Raq 2

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dan Kriwitsky wrote:

> You're lucky it's not GTE/Verizon. They require you to use your @gte.net or
> @verizon.net address as the From: or it won't go through.

Dan, do they do this if you've got a DSL account as well, or only for
dialup?

> So, no matter what you put in the RaQ to allow relay, you'll never get to
> the RaQ with certain ISPs to relay anyway.

As it should be, imho.  On today's Internet, for security sake, and for
the good of all of us (less spam), we should use our providers'
mail-servers to send email off their network.

We do NOT let our clients use our smtp for outgoing email, unless it's
generated on our network (dialup customers, script-based email,
majordomo lists, etc.).

Actually, when the Internet was a much simpler place, that's the way it
was done most of the time anyway.  The only people who used other
servers to send mail (relaying) did it because their network didn't have
a mailserver.

Jeff
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