From owner-freebsd-isp Sat May 2 15:51:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA29458 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Sat, 2 May 1998 15:51:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gjp.erols.com (alex-va-n008c243.moon.jic.com [206.156.18.253]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA29450 for ; Sat, 2 May 1998 15:51:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gjp@gjp.erols.com) Received: from gjp.erols.com (localhost.erols.com [127.0.0.1]) by gjp.erols.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA09907; Sat, 2 May 1998 18:51:01 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gjp@gjp.erols.com) To: Manar Hussain cc: "Francisco Reyes" , "Javier Henderson" , "freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG" From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: SMTP vs Spam In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 02 May 1998 21:02:12 BST." <3.0.5.32.19980502210212.008f63f0@stingray.ivision.co.uk> Date: Sat, 02 May 1998 18:51:01 -0400 Message-ID: <9903.894149461@gjp.erols.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Manar Hussain wrote in message ID <3.0.5.32.19980502210212.008f63f0@stingray.ivision.co.uk>: > 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. Err. You can send e-mail via POP3. XTND XMIT is the command, and is implimented in QPopper and Eudora I believe. I am not aware of any other POP servers that have XTND XMIT.... Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message