Ok, I got the scoop on this from a friend. Apparently, some of the POP vendors that EarthLink uses don't do the port 25 blocking. That's because those companies do their own spamming and don't want their own emails blocked.
So, the reason it works for me to send mail through smtp.mac.com, but won't work for someone else is the connection. I'm not sure why DSL would work for some and not for others (since they don't go through a POP) but it's probably some similar difference. This is a really bad thing, especially for people that buy a new mac, sign up for EarthLink using Apple's setup assistant and then have setup assistant configure their machine to use smtp.mac.com only for them to come to find out that might not work (depending on the POP they happen to use). I'm sure this is generating a lot of tech support calls for EarthLink. on 2/26/02 9:17 AM, Allen Watson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On or near 2/25/02 5:29 PM, David at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed: > >> I never had anything but a dialup account with Earthlink. You know, >> Earthlink leases lots of its local access points. I wonder if perhaps some >> of them aren't configured properly and that's why some people can relay mail >> while others cannot. > > That's my guess, too. -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
