RE: [cobalt-users] Email relaying

["Dan Kriwitsky" <list1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> 
> 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."

I expect I would have been receiving email from them via their ISP
before they started hosting with me, so they already know that.

> 
> 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.

I wouldn't suggest that, although some of my customers prefer it so they
only have one POP to check and I don't have to teach them how to add
another account to their mail client.
  
> 
> 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."

At least AOL will do it regardless of the From: address.

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C2002 Dan Kriwitsky

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