"Neil Parks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Some mail providers will let you use their smtp hosts if you actually
> have a mailbox with their service.
>
> For example, if I send a msg from "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", the smtp host at
> mailandnews.com refuses to accept it. If I send the same msg but my
> From line contains "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", then m-and-n recognizes
> that as a legit user and accepts the msg.
But how do they know it's really you? Crosswinds.net works this way
and they're in ORBS.
> Then there are other email services that, if you first receive your mail
> via pop3 (thereby supplying a password), will then let you send email
> with smtp. If you don't receive first then you won't be able to send.
Much better. Gmx does this. However, some large ISP's block port 25,
which means that you can't connect to any smtp server except your
own ISP's smarthost, so neither of these methods will work.
Howard Eisenberger
Ottawa, Canada
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