On Saturday 03 April 2004 15:58, Gary wrote:
That wouldn't work if you are trying to email certain ISPs (such as AOL) that block "dynamic IP ranges" of plenty of ISPs from sending mail direct to their customers.
yes it does work if you set your MTA, eg, postfix, sendmail, or qmail to relay through his ISP's SMTP for those specific domains such as aol.com, otherwise use his standard MTA to send for those not listed... this is done in the smtp routing file of MTAs.
It still wouldn't work in this case, as AT&T blocks outbound tcp/25. Regardless, the number of mail systems accepting connections from dynamic IPs is quickly shrinking (the system I admin, for one; using the SORBS dynamic IP blocklist alone has cut the incoming flow of spam and viruses to my system by about 70%). -- Homepage http://scott.exti.net XFce desktop environment http://www.xfce.org Goodies for the XFce desktop http://xfce-goodies.berlios.de GPG public key ID: 811B00AB