Re: ISP

[David Talkington <dtalk prairienet org>]

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Brad Cox wrote:

>On Sat, 1 Sep 2001 16:08:59 +0000 (UTC)
>David Talkington <dtalk prairienet org> wrote:

Please quote more carefully.

>Earthlink REQUIRES that you use smtp.earthlink.net as your SMTP server.
>They block port 25 to all other servers. It will work if you specyfy
>otherhost.com as your email host so long as you specify smtp.earthlink.net
>as the smtp address.

By "email host", I presume you mean POP or IMAP.  Otherwise, that's
correct.  The effect of this is that Earthlink's customers can't run
their own mail servers.  I think that's perfectly legitimate, and I
would do the same thing if I ran an ISP.  Otherwise, they have no way
to control mass unsolicited mail sent by their customers.  Many sites
block mail injected directly from dialup pools, anyway, so you
shouldn't waste your time trying to do it.

You CAN use your own SMTP server, as I do, but you must configure it
to forward to Earthlink's MX.  I do that because it allows qmail to
take the responsibility of dealing with Earthlink's slow SMTP server,
which means my mail clients don't have to wait several seconds for a
response every time I send a message.

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