* Rocco Rutte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [05-16-02 09:04]:
> Hi,
>
> * David T-G [05/16/02 15:47:11 CEST] wrote:
> > If you just want to relay instead of send, well, that's probably tough;
> > that's what spammers do, and nobody likes that. You have a Linux box
> > with a capable sendmail; why not just send your mail?
>
> ... because there're blacklist available which lots of MTAs
> may check a sender against. In most cases mails from dial-up
> lines are blocked; as a side effect the majority of people
> forced to use a relay are innocent and just want to deliver
> simple mail directly. Out there are those few bad apples which
> run open relays so that there's much more spam going through
> those channels instead of dial-up lines with direct delivery.
I have sent mail directly for ~3 years from dial-up and more recently
from cable-access and the ONLY time I have had a problem with my posts
being accepted was when the from_envelope did not match the "from"
address. I made the from_envelope match the "from" address and have
had no more rejections.
Of course, I have not been a spammer or strong agitater.
AND, both my dial-up and cable providers had smtp accounts available
for sending mail. Why not set sendmail to use your provider's smtp
account??
> Of course, everybody with a dial-up line may try to send mail
> directly but from time to time you will get bounces making you
> use a relay, finally.
--
Patrick Shanahan
Registered Linux User #207535
@ http://counter.li.org
