> Friday, January 05, 2001, 10:06:24 PM, Olivier Reubens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> OR> Why does no e-mail client have an option to deliver sent mail
> OR> directly to the addressed person's SMTP server. Am I missing an
> OR> obvious "NO" here, or have I just thought up a totally new type of
> OR> internet application (Maybe I should file a patent for it right away
> OR> <grin>)
>
I use sendmail under Linux (OT but I'll carry on) this sends mail straight
away wihtout using a smtp server. It integrates with my mail client (KMail)
so Kmail effectivly has a smtp server built into it.
> No patents here <grin too>. And the answers to your question is quite
> easy:
> 1. There are MUAs that allow user to deliver e-mail messages directly to
> the SMTP server of some addressee.
> 2. This delivery scheme is unusual at the user's end and isn't
> appreciated by the ISPs. Remember that user != server :-)
Who cares about what your ISP thinks. It's not that unusual and many people
run their own smtp server. I run one at work to ave having to use the demon
one.
> 4. We're living in the world of spam. Let the servers do their work
> perfectly.
But they don't do their work perfectly and it is simple for a spammer to set
up their own smtp server. Disallowing relaying is a poor system. As is
blackholeing.
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Jamie Dainton
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