From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 6 13:31:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6F2137B424 for ; Wed, 6 Sep 2000 13:31:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.36] ident=root) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 13Wkle-000ID4-00; Wed, 06 Sep 2000 20:21:54 +0100 Received: (from ben@localhost) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA44826; Wed, 6 Sep 2000 20:21:54 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from ben) Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 20:21:54 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: Dan Nelson Cc: Alan Clegg , "Christopher W. Aiken" , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Sendmail / mutt errors Message-ID: <20000906202154.E8064@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <20000905211006.H66030@diskfarm.firehouse.net> <20000905223434.A15107@dan.emsphone.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20000905223434.A15107@dan.emsphone.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dan Nelson wrote: > The AOL message is very badly worded; there's nothing your ISP can do > about it, Yes, there is, they can transparently direct all port 25 traffic to their own smarthosts. I'm not saying this is a good thing to do (quite the opposite in my opinion) but some ISPs (including Freeserve, the largest ISP in the UK) do just that. -- Ben Smithurst / ben@FreeBSD.org / PGP: 0x99392F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message