I wasn't going to reply, because it would just be another case of "no
win" ...
I will, instead, simply state that my ISP made clear a number of things
about the types of firewall protection they have:
1. The SMTP server will not "open relay."
2. If the need arose for me to telnet into the servers, for mail
tossing from foreign site [like when I'm stuck in the VA hospital], they
would consider giving me a username & password that would allow it;
without the username & password, it would not be possible to do.
3. Anyone who believes such to not be the case can attempt to telnet
into the SMTP server and see what happens. If [as I suspect] you can't
even get close using just "go-concepts.com," and you are bound and
determined to prove me wrong, please ask for the numeric address and I
will provide it. If you *can* manage to break in, then my ISP would
like to know that, and they won't get angry at you unless you also
decide to send out a spew of spam.
l.d.
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On Mon, 05 Feb 2001 12:11:15 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
> I think you are failing to understand what L.D. is saying. It appears
> that she is under the impression that email clients negotiate their
> sendmail protocols with some other kind of facility on the server end that
> is apart and different and separate from the Telnet facility, although it
> may be possible that both facilities share the same port to output a data
> product. I also have the same impression as L.D. Were there not some
> facility other than Telnet involved, then it would be a reasonable
> inference that we would be seeing our email clients receiving the
> same kinds of messages and feedback from the server end as we see in our
> Telnet clients during a Telnet session. The fact that server end feedback
> is not the same when using an email client as when using a Telnet client
> would quite naturally lead one to conclude that the that there is some
> facility other than Telnet doing business at port 25 on the server end,
> and that this other facility may also be used for processing outgoing mail.
> I don't know what this other facility might be called, and I am only
> hypothesizing its existence based on the observations described above.
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