On 8 March 2010 13:06, Teus Benschop <teusjannette@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 2010-03-08 at 10:21 +0000, Richard Quadling wrote: >> Contrary to popular belief, to send an email you do not need to have >> your own SMTP server. All you need to know is the SMTP server >> responsible for your recipients email. > [...] > > While the above is true, there is also another thing that comes into > play. We used to send email directly to the receiver the way described > above. But at times it happens that the receiving smtp server refuses to > accept mail from the sender since the sender is not known to be a good > smtp server, and at times it could get blacklisted. Rules like this get > tightened up because of the desire to curb spam at the source. > > Teus. > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > So, say I did go and setup a local SMTP relay, how would I make it known that it was a "real" smtp server and not just some script pushing spam? -- ----- Richard Quadling "Standing on the shoulders of some very clever giants!" EE : http://www.experts-exchange.com/M_248814.html EE4Free : http://www.experts-exchange.com/becomeAnExpert.jsp Zend Certified Engineer : http://zend.com/zce.php?c=ZEND002498&r=213474731 ZOPA : http://uk.zopa.com/member/RQuadling -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
