From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 24 19:17:19 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A938106566C for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2011 19:17:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gull@gull.us) Received: from mail-ey0-f182.google.com (mail-ey0-f182.google.com [209.85.215.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 187888FC13 for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2011 19:17:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eyg7 with SMTP id 7so369677eyg.13 for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2011 11:17:17 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.14.47.193 with SMTP id t41mr1142288eeb.21.1298575037624; Thu, 24 Feb 2011 11:17:17 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.14.119.1 with HTTP; Thu, 24 Feb 2011 11:17:17 -0800 (PST) X-Originating-IP: [64.81.163.112] In-Reply-To: <116272.11674.qm@web36504.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <1298158643.73477.1.camel@z6000.lenzicasa> <764705.98740.qm@web36504.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20110223224102.efb64d4c.freebsd@edvax.de> <116272.11674.qm@web36504.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 11:17:17 -0800 Message-ID: From: David Brodbeck To: freebsd-questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: Re: How to forward old root mails to an external email address? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 19:17:19 -0000 On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 5:20 PM, Bill Tillman wrote: > Yes, but in the good ol' USA it's all about the money. They will not let me do > anything like this unless I pay more to upgrade my service. The wierd thing is > that once in a blue moon my IP address will change. Then I can send e-mail for a > few hours or even days. but soon they will start blocking me saying that I have > been identified as a spammer. But for a fee and a monthly reoccurring one at > that, they can fix the problem for me. Not like the old days in 1998. I've always had success using the ISP's email smarthost for outgoing mail, to get around that. They sometimes require authentication, though, which can be tricky to configure in some MTAs. I think Comcast requires you to authenticate to their smarthost, for example. Speakeasy (my current ISP) doesn't block ports, but a lot of Internet sites reject mail from IP ranges they identify as DSL or cable modem blocks, so I send through the smarthost anyway. Now, a more difficult problem is that some ISPs block *incoming* port 25, but that's a different discussion.