sendmail help?
Scott Mitchell
scott at fishballoon.org
Thu Jan 22 06:49:30 PST 2004
owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org wrote:
> I think you are barking up the wrong tree.
> I don't think you understand how your ISP works.
> ISP's do not allow direct smtp access to their email servers,
> they consider it an security risk to their environment.
Erm, the OP is trying to send mail, not receive it:
>> Hi all. I am having a really hard time getting sendmail to work for
>> me. I have a dial up DSL account that gives me an outgoing smtp
>> account that requires smtp authentication.
ISPs generally do allow access to their servers for outgoing mail. Most of
them positively encourage it, in fact :-)
Scott
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