Clickers has a commercial Cox account, donated by Cox, not a residential one. The mailserver idea should work. Terry
At 04:38 PM 6/13/2003 -0500, you wrote: >It's not sendmail. Some ISPs now block mail from DSL boxes like yourself: > >http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/04/13/2215207.shtml?tid=120 > >I wanted to set up a mail server for the CCCC, but now it seems >pointless. Last week, Russ told me that he wanted such a thing because >they have about 1,000 members they message once a month. Cox has a 100 >mail cap, so they have to cut up their mail list and they hate >that. Looks like they are either going to keep hating it or get some >"special" arrangements so that they can be one of the privileged few >allowed to broadcast. > >The only way to make the internet usable is to keep it open. I wrote Cox >and told them their efforts were futile and harmful, but did not hear >anything back. I submitted a story to Slashdot too. We shall see what >happens. Chances are the noose will continue to tighten and the internet >will go the way of broadcast radio and TV. > >On 2003.06.13 15:49 Karthik Poobalasubramanian wrote: > > Hi ppl > > well here's the situation. I have around 5 active > > email addresses(don't ask me why I have 5!). I use > > bellsouth adsl and i am sure port 25 is open. In order > > to manage all the emails from one single point(also i > > need to access it from anywhere) i use fetchmail to > > get it to the local mailbox on my box. this part works > > perfectly fine. But to send mails from my box I use > > sendmail.To read and send messages I use pine. The > > trouble is not everyone i email get them. some emails > > are totally lost some reach in few hours and most of > > them reach within few seconds. > > i have searched in google and read through some of the > > documents for sendmail. > > any suggestions? > > > > tia > > karthik > > -- Terry Stockdale -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Baton Rouge, LA website: http://www.dadstoy.net
