On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 10:58:35PM -0500, Pat Mahoney wrote: > On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 08:30:47PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> > You'd need to find out what criteria the mail server is using to > > restrict sent mail. Generally, it should just look at the address of > > your system, but apparently it's doing more than that (which doesn't > > buy them any security, but anyway). > I know. I hate that. My old isp did the old "check your pop account to > validate your IP for 10 minutes." I can understand a non-isp doing this > (although auth exists as an smtp extension) but shouldn't an isp know what > ip numbers it owns? Things like that drive me nuts... Not always. Some ISPs don't own their own dialup pools but rent time on those of other ISPs like UUnet. If they allowed relay access to all the dialup pools it wouldn't just be their customers that could relay. They should have enough information not to need to do POP before SMTP but due to the difficulty of making things work reliably some will still use the same techniques that you'd use if you didn't have that informaiton. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFS http://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/
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