Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 19:07:07 -0500 From: Eric Ogren <eogren@earthlink.net> To: Jim Durham <durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us> Cc: Don Read <dread@texas.net>, Jim Freeze <jim@freeze.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to access POP3 mail? Message-ID: <20000326190707.A4525@earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: <38DE9577.C283B346@w2xo.pgh.pa.us>; from Jim Durham on Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 05:55:51PM -0500 References: <XFMail.000326153158.dread@texas.net> <38DE9577.C283B346@w2xo.pgh.pa.us>
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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<ISP's mail server>" 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
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