And, you don't want to do that, else you, yourself become a spammer. Chuck Hallenbeck writes: > > If you have a dynamic IP address and attempt to send mail directly from > your own system instead of going through your ISP, you will run into a > surprising number of recipients who will refuse your mail in the belief > that you are a spammer. Also, the default sendmail configuration > nowadays disallows relaying. i.e., outsiders cannot use your sendmail > to relay mail through you and your ISP to the world. With your own port > 25 open, mail coming to you is accepted, but mail intended for others > is not. To change that feature you have to select "promiscuous" > relaying. > > Chuck > > > On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, Sean McMahon wrote: > > >There's certainly nothing that says you have to send mail through your isp > >smtp > >server. You can but don't have to do it this way. Use an mta only if an > >mta is > >necessary. Be careful about what you allow to access your mta esp. if it > >sends > >mail from your system directly to the internet. I've never heard of a > >system > >where you have to get your mail before you can send mail. > > -- > The Moon is Waxing Gibbous (56% of Full) > "Things are in the saddle, and they ride mankind." Ralph Waldo Emerson > Personal site www.hhs48.com, Software site www.mhcable.com/~chuckh > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka Phone: +1.202.494.7040 Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://www.CapitalAccessibility.Com Chair, Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) janina at freestandards.org http://a11y.org If Linux can't solve your computing problem, you need a different problem.
