From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 26 16:12:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kestrel.prod.itd.earthlink.net (kestrel.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.121.155]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90CD537B7EE for ; Sun, 26 Mar 2000 16:12:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eogren@earthlink.net) Received: from red.ogren.house (ip160.cambridge2.ma.pub-ip.psi.net [38.32.112.160]) by kestrel.prod.itd.earthlink.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA04848; Sun, 26 Mar 2000 16:12:44 -0800 (PST) Received: (from eogren@localhost) by red.ogren.house (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian/GNU) id TAA04537; Sun, 26 Mar 2000 19:07:11 -0500 Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 19:07:07 -0500 From: Eric Ogren To: Jim Durham Cc: Don Read , Jim Freeze , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to access POP3 mail? Message-ID: <20000326190707.A4525@earthlink.net> References: <38DE9577.C283B346@w2xo.pgh.pa.us> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <38DE9577.C283B346@w2xo.pgh.pa.us>; from Jim Durham on Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 05:55:51PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 05:55:51PM -0500, Jim Durham wrote: > Just a cautionary note, if you are going to relay > through your ISP, they must add your IP or hostname to > their relay-domains file. > > It's much simpler to just use XFMAIL or Netscape and set > up the POP stuff to point to their mail server. You > can use your own sendmail for outgoing to get around > the "anti-spam" rules on your ISP. This is generally not true. If, like me, you are a member of an ISP that has its dial-up addresses on the antispam Dialup Listing, and you attempt to run your own [non smarthost configured] sendmail, much of your mail will be blocked. This is because at many places (including FreeBSD.org), the mail server checks the IP against the dialup-network spam list, and rejects the mail if your IP is on it. I must agree with the previous poster; adding "DS" is a much better way to go. Unless your ISP is incompetent, they WILL have your IP number in their relay-domain file, since otherwise nobody who runs Windows could send email (Windows does not ship with an SMTP server). Eric To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message