Greg Wallace wrote:
On Sunday, April 23, 2006 @ 5:40, Carlos Robinson wrote: The Thursday 2006-04-20 at 13:08 +0200, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
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Hylton: The key here is that it's the SMTP server that you use that imposes the restriction. You can use any SMTP server that you have subscribed to without having any problem with your ISP. I am using a 3rd party Mail product and am not using my ISP's SMTP server. This should always be allowed. Now if I were to log into a different ISP and try to use my ISP's SMTP server, they might reject my mail. It depends on the policy of that ISP. I used to live in Alaska and had 2 ISP's at one point. One of them let me use it's SMTP server from the other, but not vice versa. I. e., one of the ISP's had a more restrictive policy. Maybe you understood this already, but I got the feeling maybe you didn't.
Tnx Greg, I hadn't before realized that ISP's can place restrictions on the SMTP servers as I figured it just transported the mail between nodes. I now know that this is not so and that my own ISP is a restrictive one. As I said to Carlos earlier, time to change ISP's