> Umm - What is a smarthost? One that isn't dumb? :-) > > Sorry 'bout that. A Smarthost is a mail relay which > is able to send your > mail onto its proper destination. If you are a > dial-up user or if you > are a residential user of a DSL or cable connection > you probably have a > dynamically allocated IP address. A good solution > for this situation is > to use your ISP's smtp relay to route all your > outgoing mail. This is > one of the times when you use the smarthost option. > > If you have a static IP then you can safely set up > your system to deliver > your mail directly to its destination. This means > not using the smarthost > option. > > > Note - while using your ISP's mail relay service is > convenient there are > drawbacks, for example, Your ISP will typically > restrict how many emails per > hour you are allowed to send out, and how quickly > they can follow one another. > > This drawback is balanced out by the fact that many > large ISP's such as > Comcast and AOL (The two largest in the world, I > think.) will not accept > direct email connections from known dynamically > allocated IP addresses > regardless of whether any SPAM has ever come from > that address. So if you > have a dynamic IP, you may have to go with your > ISP's mail relay. > > (Unless you want to use the sendmail "mailertable" > feature to configure > special handling for those ISP's domains who will > not allow a direct > connection....... ) > > > -- > Jeff Kinz, ??? ok.. I'm confused (sorry about making so many questions), but I have a dyn ip. I dont use a "smarthost," and everything seems ok. Now, my question is.. what drawbacks do I have again? everything seems to work well. I have an account at dyndns.org, and i can receive and send emails. It seems everything is working, but I have been using this configuration for only 4 or 5 days. should I worry about it? thanks, Rigo __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com
