Authentication with SMART_HOST in sendmail?
James Wilkinson
fedora at aprilcottage.co.uk
Thu Aug 24 18:48:58 UTC 2006
Tim wrote:
> While a person's ISP mightn't stop them from doing that, various mail
> services will not accept mail sent directly from an ISP customer's IP
> address.
Steve Searle wrote:
> Which ones? I always send email directly from my IP address.
AOL, for one. You may not think that's a bad thing...
It depends a bit on which ISP you're using and what sort of services
they provide. If you have a fixed IP address then you're more likely to
get away with it (compared to using one of a pool of dynamic addresses,
which may be used by random virus-infected Windows clients). Similarly,
the more "business class" your service, the more likely they are to
accept e-mail from you.
See, for example,
http://www.demon.net/helpdesk/networkstatus/serviceannouncements/announce27april.html
Hope this helps,
James.
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