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[Gene Heskett]

Tim wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 10:13 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> They also filter your email "to stop virus etc" and there is no way to
>> opt out except to have everyone use a special address (change the 
>> verizon in my address to verizononline) to send me an email that 
>> supposedly bypasses this filtering.  When I tried to sign up for 
>> wengophone, I wanted to do that, but there was no way they
>> (wengophone) would accept an email address that didn't match the one
>> in the headers of the message they received.  So I'm screwed & didn't
>> even get kissed.
> 
> Did you change all the settings in a suitable manner?  Making sure that
> the message came from you with a "from" address like that, and didn't
> have a "reply-to" address (specifically with a different one).
> 
> Checking that a poster's "from" address comes from the same domain as
> the server isn't a viable thing to do.  Only in some cases is it going
> to match, and it doesn't *have* to in any.  If it were, fewer of us
> would be on this list, we don't all use a mail account from our ISP.
> 
> The other obvious thing would be to try setting up those sorts of thing
> from a completely different mail service (the dreaded Hotmail, Yahoo, or
> another).  I rarely use an ISP mail service for another reason:  If I
> want to leave the ISP, because it began to suck or something, I'll lose
> the address, and lose everything else that got associated with it.
> 
Humm, good point...

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Cheers, Gene