Re: [cobalt-users] Email relaying

["alan@" <alan@xxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lillith Lesanges" <lillith@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 12:59 PM
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Email relaying


> > 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.
> systems@xxxxxxxxxx

WTF ???