Date: Sun, 3 May 1998 12:18:35 -0600 (MDT) From: Atipa <freebsd@atipa.com> To: Manar Hussain <manar@ivision.co.uk> Cc: Francisco Reyes <reyesf@newsguy.com>, Javier Henderson <javier@kjsl.com>, "freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: SMTP vs Spam Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980503121709.28140A-100000@altrox.atipa.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980502210212.008f63f0@stingray.ivision.co.uk>
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Install your smtp w/ tcp wrappers or xinetd, so that it will only relay for allowed hosts. Works fine for me, using both IMAP and POP. I use qmail for smtp and sendmail and local delivery, and it works great. Kevin On Sat, 2 May 1998, Manar Hussain wrote: > >I don't know if it is POP3, but the email i am using to reply to you, > >and used to send the original question, uses "POP" to send email. > >This authenticates the user. > <snip> > >After I asked about POP they told me they support it. I changed my > >client to send mail through POP with them. For those who don't have > >POP on their email clients they simply will not allow email to be > >sent through their SMTP server. They are not an ISP; they are a > >presence provider (i.e. WEB pages, Email accounts). > > ISPs can set things so that only those connecting via them can send email - > the kind of company you are talking about can't. What such companies can do > is detect when you *collect* mail via pop on their server (you *can't* send > mail via pop) and work out from this what machine you are using and then > allow this machine (for a period of time) to send mail out via their mail > server. I think this is what's happening in your case. > > Manar > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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