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RE: [cobalt-users] SMTP on Raq 2



> > 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?

They told me that unless you pay extra for their business DSL with a static
IP it's the same deal.

>
> 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.

As long as they're not so stupid to authenticate by the From field, I agree.
Imagine if everyone on this list had to do that and had a different reply-to
as gte.net tells people.


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Dan Kriwitsky