From owner-freebsd-isp Sun May 3 12:21:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA09680 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Sun, 3 May 1998 12:21:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.atipa.com (altrox.atipa.com [208.128.22.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA09675 for ; Sun, 3 May 1998 12:21:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd@atipa.com) Received: (qmail 28179 invoked by uid 1017); 3 May 1998 18:18:35 -0000 Date: Sun, 3 May 1998 12:18:35 -0600 (MDT) From: Atipa To: Manar Hussain cc: Francisco Reyes , Javier Henderson , "freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: SMTP vs Spam In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980502210212.008f63f0@stingray.ivision.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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. > > >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