Authentication with SMART_HOST in sendmail?

[Steve Searle]

Around 07:48pm on Thursday, August 24, 2006 (UK time), James Wilkinson scrawled:

> 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

Ah yes - I for forgot about that.  I fo have a static IP address (from
Demon), and I did get them to add me to the AOL whitelist many moons
ago.  I still have to communicate with some AOLers, I haven't persuaded
them to change yet :-)

I am not aware of being blocked by anyone else.

> Hope this helps,
> 
> James.

Cheers

Steve

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A:  Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q:  Why is top-posting a bad thing?

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