Re: [cobalt-users] Email relaying

[Lillith Lesanges <lillith@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> Dan wrote:
> >  I'd suggest letting your customers use their dialup ISP SMTP instead 
> > of your RaQ to avoid the problem.

It avoids the problem of SMTP AUTH/POPb4SMTP, but from a support 
perspective it opens up the pain of having to say "You'll have to call 
your ISP to get the SMTP information."

Though, I certainly wouldn't mind changing everyone to forward mail to 
their Inbox at their ISP and having them deal strictly with the ISP.  
Not going to happen, of course...

On Tuesday, January 7, 2003, Ray Healy ((Data Net Services)) wrote:
> as a lot of the ISP's over here are now banning sending mail through 
> their servers unless they hold the Domain name regardless if you are 
> using their dialler.

Someone posted that Verizon/GTE is doing this as well, but I've found 
that more frequent is the AOL and Earthlink method of "you can send 
'From:' anybody, but only through -our- SMTP server and we'll block you 
from sending out SMTP to anywhere else."


Lillith K. Lesanges
IT Department, MIS, Inc.
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