Cheers Len,
I think i'm starting to get to grips with the Internet.
at least now i'm starting to know the areas i know nothing about ;)
Regards Les.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Len Conrad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 9:25 AM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] unable to send mail through ATT connection
>
> >This may be a really daft question, but why would you want to force your
> >users to use your SMTP server as apossed to their ISP's,. Is it not
better
> >to have the ISP carry the extra work load than yourselves?
>
> One pb with some of the access providers that block port 25 is that
> they also force the sender to use the access provider's envelope:
>
> MAIL FROM: sender@accessprovider
>
> rather than your own [EMAIL PROTECTED], because they know that
> can be abused.
>
> But apart from that, the "convenience" to users, worldwide, of being
> able to relay through one/your Imail has to offset against all
> their/your aggro of discovering that some access provider du jour
> blocks port 25. Plus, for IMGate users, they have to open up their
> Imail to Internet for SMTP AUTH rather than blocking Internet access
> to Imail's port 25.
>
> Len
>
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