[wplug] Personal mail from sendmail or smtp?

[Tim Quinlan]

I would recommend using the SMTP server to send.  While it is possible
to use local sendmail to send to anyone, some of the larger ISPs (like
AOL) will not accept mail from IP addresses who are not cached in their
DNS.  

Basically if you use sendmail from your local box, you'll occasionally
get some mail rejected by ISPs that practice this.



On Fri, 2003-07-11 at 23:02, Twisted Cranium wrote:
> The mail.domainname.com was (and still is) the mail server provided by my web hosting service.  When I had dial-up with another ISP I was able to use the mail. server name as the smtp server, but with my broadband ISP I cannot use it.
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>  --- On Fri 07/11, Sal Mangiapane < salm at servanttechnology.com > wrote:
> From: Sal Mangiapane [mailto: salm at servanttechnology.com]
> To: wplug at wplug.org
> Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 22:14:24 -0400
> Subject: RE: [wplug] Personal mail from sendmail or smtp?
> 
> Was mail.domainname.com your X-isp?<br>Can you still connect to mail.domainname.com? (probably)<br><br>You should be able to use your old email server if it still exists.  But, you shouldn't "forward" through your new isp to get there.<br>Make your outgoing mail server mail.domainname.com and use the username/password for it.<br><br>sal<br><br>><br>> Hello everyone....<br>><br>> I recently have had broadband setup and can no longer use the mail.domainname.com server as my outgoing mail server since<br>> "forwarding" is not allowed by the isp.  (Which I can assume is a good thing in the long run)<br>><br>> Now I can either send mail from my linux machine through the isp's smtp server (smtp.isp.com) or I noticed that I can use<br>> the sendmail program on linux to send it through.<br>><br>> Not knowing enough to make a wise choice here, which is the safest method that I should use?  And which would be the<br>> method I should use to not have myself flagged on any blacklists and
>   that sort of thing?<br>><br>> Thanks<br>> Twisted<br>><br>><br>> --------------<br>> TwistedCranium<br>> twistedcranium at excite.com<br>> {ICQ 137138155 & Yahoo/AOL IM: twistdcranium}<br>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com<br>> The most personalized portal on the Web!<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> wplug mailing list<br>> wplug at wplug.org<br>> http://www.wplug.org/mailman/listinfo/wplug<br>><br>><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>wplug mailing list<br>wplug at wplug.org<br>http://www.wplug.org/mailman/listinfo/wplug<br>
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