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30 Jan 02 - 02:48 PM (#638808) Subject: TECH: SMTP Non-Relaying by ISPs From: Justa Picker This is justa public service announcement of which only a small few might benefit from but nevertheless I'll post it for posterity. It affects anyone who has encountered what's called a "relaying" problem with their ISP, in terms of sending OUTGOING e-mail through your ISP's SMTP server. Seems to be more of a problem with cable internet ISPs, and maybe a few colleges and universities as well. For instance, let's say you have more than 1 email addresss (i.e. one you use for personal correspondence that ends with @yourispsname.com and another that is attached to a biz domain name as in @yourdomainname.com). "Relaying" by definition is the ability to send outgoing e-mail through your ISP's smtp server, regardless of what the sender's e-mail address ends in following the "@" symbol. Many ISP's in an attempt to crack down on their servers being highjacked by bulk emailers and spammers have instituted a "no relaying" policy...which basically means if you have a different sender name (attached to say your biz/registered domain name) that is different than the authenticated (recognized) e-mail name your ISP assigns you, you may not be able to send any outgoing e-mail unless you are using the recognized name. While I can completely understand ISP's wanting to crack down on this, for many with a separate biz e-mail address and needing to do correspondence with that specific e-mail address (the credibility thing) it's a major pain in the ass, and of course the ISP's that don't permit relaying are useless in offering a work around. But there is one, and, it's free. The only downside of it I suppose, is that spammers and bulk e-mailers have access to this same program. Nevertheless, for those of us in a situation I've described above, this is an elegant solution. Go to this web site and download Postcast Server version 2.0 It is very easy and practically self configuring, and you still use your existing e-mail program to send/compose/receive e-mail. Your email program (when you hit SEND) simply hands it off to the Postcast program and it sends the e-mail out through external, publicly accessible SMPT servers, and completely bypasses your own ISP's smtp server. Set to the Postcast program to manually send the messages. So essentially you hit SEND in your native email program, and then just click START on the minimized tray icon for Postcast, and that's it. (If for any reason the clones or moderators here don't feel this is an appropriate public announcement, and delete this message and thread, I will completely understand. I just figured there could be others in this situation that I am now in with my cable ISP (Rogers, who impleemented this after changing from the @home service), and have discovered an effective work around to the problem.) |
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30 Jan 02 - 03:59 PM (#638861) Subject: RE: TECH: SMTP Relaying imposed by ISPs From: katlaughing I am always glad to learn of such things, as you know, JP. Thanks for *relaying* the info! kat |