Barry you are right. it is SMTP. Did not wear my glasses when typing :)
Barry Margolin wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Peter Dambier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Thinking of mail, first our mailserver's ssh login does not let >> you in if you do not have a name. Same goes for many web sites. > > I doubt that many web sites do this. Lots of ISPs don't configure > reverse DNS for their customers, although this has gotten much better in > recent years. Second, most web sites try to provide the fastest > response time they can, and doing a reverse lookup would slow things > down too much. > >> Next the IMAP server looks for a valid name and the SMTP daemon >> wont even ask you for AUTH. Without AUTH there is no mail forwarding. >> >> The IMAP receiver on port 25 will treat emails as spam if your >> reverse name and your sender come from different TLDs. > > ITYM SMTP. IMAP is used for reading mail, not sending it. > -- Peter and Karin Dambier Cesidian Root - Radice Cesidiana Rimbacher Strasse 16 D-69509 Moerlenbach-Bonsweiher +49(6209)795-816 (Telekom) +49(6252)750-308 (VoIP: sipgate.de) mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.peter-dambier.de/ http://iason.site.voila.fr/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/iason/
