Hi, * David T-G [05/16/02 15:47:11 CEST] wrote: > If you just want to relay instead of send, well, that's probably tough; > that's what spammers do, and nobody likes that. You have a Linux box > with a capable sendmail; why not just send your mail?
... because there're blacklist available which lots of MTAs may check a sender against. In most cases mails from dial-up lines are blocked; as a side effect the majority of people forced to use a relay are innocent and just want to deliver simple mail directly. Out there are those few bad apples which run open relays so that there's much more spam going through those channels instead of dial-up lines with direct delivery. Of course, everybody with a dial-up line may try to send mail directly but from time to time you will get bounces making you use a relay, finally. Cheers, Rocco.
