sendmail help?

[fbsd_user]

Yes I am serious. I have used 5 different ISP's over the years and
not one let sendmail have direct access to their smtp email servers.
They all required me to use their pop3 server which is something
totally different. I believe the original poster was asking about
using sendmail to retrieve email from his ISP's smtp server.  And
it's still a lot easier to install fetchmail than to reinstall
sendmail.

-----Original Message-----
From: Dinesh Nair [mailto:dinesh at alphaque.com]
Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 9:42 AM
To: fbsd_user
Cc: Matthew Seaman; Adam Bozanich; freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
Subject: RE: sendmail help?


On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, fbsd_user 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.
Did

are you serious ? i sometimes send mail out, by connecting to my
ISP's
smtp servers. i believe this practice is the same worldwide.
however, due
to spam and open relays, some isps may filter access to their smtp
server
to only allow thier customers. this can be done either thru smtp
authentication or by ip address filtering (which malaysian isps
use).

Regards,                           /\_/\   "All dogs go to heaven."
dinesh at alphaque.com                (0 0)    http://www.alphaque.com/
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