Email getting and sending

[John Thompson]

Jorge Fábregas wrote:

> On Saturday 24 July 2004 2:21 pm, John Thompson wrote:
> 
>>Many ISPs have taken to blocking port 25 connections from dynamic IP
>>addesses as these are frequently spam bots.  Instead, tell sendmail to
>>use your ISP's smtp service as a "smart host" --
>>define(`SMART_HOST',`smtp.your.provider') in sendmail.mc, generate a new
>>sendmail.cf by running "make -C /etc/mail" and restart sendmail.  Your
>>outbound email will be routed through your ISP's smtp service for delivery.

> Why would you do that? Instead of specifying your ISP's MTA in your MUA? Any 
> benefit?

If you only have a single machine connected to the internet, that's 
fine.  But if you have a network on which you need to run your own smtp 
service you'll want to use the smart_host.


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-John (john at os2.dhs.org)