Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 14:48:46 -0000 From: "Scott Mitchell" <scott@fishballoon.org> To: <fbsd_user@a1poweruser.com>, "'Matthew Seaman'" <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>, "'Adam Bozanich'" <abozan01@ccsf.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: sendmail help? Message-ID: <E1Ajg90-0007Tm-4I@llama.fishballoon.org> In-Reply-To: <MIEPLLIBMLEEABPDBIEGCEKJFFAA.fbsd_user@a1poweruser.com>
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owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org wrote: > I think you are barking up the wrong tree. > I don't think you understand how your ISP works. > ISP's do not allow direct smtp access to their email servers, > they consider it an security risk to their environment. Erm, the OP is trying to send mail, not receive it: >> Hi all. I am having a really hard time getting sendmail to work for >> me. I have a dial up DSL account that gives me an outgoing smtp >> account that requires smtp authentication. ISPs generally do allow access to their servers for outgoing mail. Most of them positively encourage it, in fact :-) Scott
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