Re: *any* smtp? [was Re: Authentication

[Bernie]

Howard wrote:
>> > It's pretty useless IMHO since you can't (AFAIK) use it to subscribe
>> > to mailinglists (you can not verify who it was that sent the mail in
>> > a good way).
>
>I don't see any reason why you can't subscribe to a mailing list
>using direct to MX. Mailing lists should use e-mail confirmation
>to verify the subscriber.

I do not know how sendmail works - I do know however that it didn't work
for people in my class when they needed to subscribe to a mailinglist for a
course. By changing to use the smtp host it did work.