I have always done direct sending and have had a couple of domains block it -- whereupon I used the sendmail mailertable to tell sendmail to use my isp's outgoing smtp machine, but the rest I do directly. on Sunday 06/22/2003 Steve Holmes(steve at holmesgrown.com) wrote > I have had at least two ISP's do this a while back when I had dial-up > accounts. But I must say that the default configurations for sendmail > in Slackware do direct sending and make no mention of smart hosting. > In fact, I used to smart host my mail to earthlink, the default mail > host for Sprint Brod Band and Earthlink's DNS would not resolve > properly for mail being sent to the speakup list. I had to go back to > direct sending of my mail since Sprint's local DNS's were properly > configured and my mail would get through this way. > > So now, all my "inside" machines on my LAN use a "smart host" to my > router/mailer, now running Slackware 9 and that machine dies a direct > send as I just mentioned. I have Exim running on all my linux boxes > and life is good:). > > On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 11:10:19AM -0500, Adam Myrow wrote: > > I think ISPS will block a dial-up or DHCP user who tries direct sending. > > I assume that more people on this list are using such a setup than those > > using a static IP. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > -- > Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. > See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- John Covici covici at ccs.covici.com
