On 14/02/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Wednesday 14 February 2007 08:05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > I have had bigpond for about 4 years, I use their smtp server as an
> > outbound, to stop my mail being blocked because it came from a dial up
> > (I'm on cable). I haven't had a problem. I have my own domain setup.
> > Haven't had a problem with tpg or exetel either.
> >
> > I think most isp allow relaying through there smtp (outbound from your
> > laptop to the internet) from all of their ip addresses
>
> I had been told that Bigpond would block smtp and searching on Google
> for smtp and Bigpond shows many frustrated users who have been blocked
> but I had better have a try and see what gives.
>
> I have reconfigured exim4 and guessed a few things as I don't know much
> about mail but Bigpond's website gives its mail site name as
> mail.bigpond.com so I set exim to use it and I think it has worked. This
> email is sent from mutt while at home using Bigpond.
I have read (in Bigpond blurb) that various ports are blocked including smpt.
They also say that for $10 / month you can get a fixed IP and unblocked
ports. Now THAT may be the only good thing they've every done <smile>
James
SMPT? Simple Mail.. Posting Transport?
"Blocking outbound SMTP" generally means blocking outbound connections
on port 25. Gmail's service requires you to use SSL on port 465, will
generally bypass this.
There's been quite a few mentions in this thread about the header that
gets added by Gmail. The header that gets set is the "Sender:" header.
Outlook in particular does bizarre things with this header: an email
with "From: Phil A. Scarratt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" and "Sender: Phil B.
Scarrat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" will show in outlook as being "From: Phil
B. Scarrat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on behalf of Phil A. Scarrat
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>".
From: headers, reply-to headers and the like will be left unmunged,
and that's better than some mailing lists I could mention..
If you can live with that, Gmail is cheap and reliable.
I just noticed that, amongst the rest of the evil munging this list
does, it also munges the sender address to be
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]". That must mean that anyone reading the
list in outlook sees each and every post to the list as being "Fom:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of...".. ick!
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- Zhasper, 2004
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