On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 10:50:15AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My ISP doesn't provide a mail server so I'm having problems sending email from my dynamic IP address at home to *some* addresses like my work email box. I think my work has some security feature stopping this.
Sort of. Not really a security feature, but something intended to trap spam. They use greylisting <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greylisting>. The first time you connect from a given IP address with a given from/to pair, they will reject the connection. A proper mail server will just queue the message and try again later. If you're running a queueing mail server at home, it might go through later. However, there are a lot of sites out there that reject mail from dynamic IP addresses, so you are probably best off sending the mail through something with a static IP address. My ISP provides an SMTP server, but only would allow me to send mail from their special and nearly worthless address. For my own domain, I have to host my own server. It allows forwarding with proper authentication, which I use to send email from my NATted addresses and such. Dave -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
