Thanks for the tip! I did not realize you could do that to SMTPSender=...
-V
----- Original Message -----
From: David Gregg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, June 05, 1999 1:51 PM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] A note about Open Relay and usefulness (Front
Page + Other gripes)
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> FYI -
> the SMTPSender= (as well as all the others) can be unique to each
frontpage
> 'web'. When you make the settings at the top of the INI , the settings
are
> global. If you wish to override them , you must make the appropriate
> setting within the INI section pertaining to your host.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vaughn Thurman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Saturday, June 05, 1999 9:01 AM
> Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] A note about Open Relay and usefulness (Front
> Page + Other gripes)
>
>
> >reply is mingled below (look for the stars **)
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: Gary Mauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Sent: Friday, June 04, 1999 6:57 PM
> >Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] A note about Open Relay and usefulness (Front
> >Page + Other gripes)
> >
> >
> >>
> >> > Front Page:
> >> > You can have Front Page assign a user name that it will use when
> sending
> >> > mail. That helps if you only allow "from local domains" or "local
> >> addresses
> >> > (if from a local address)". In the frontpg.ini do
> >> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>
> >> First, if I'm a host administrator, what's the person who administers
> the
> >> server called? ( I may have just figured that out.)
> >
> >** In the IMAIL world they are called the IMAIL "system administrators".
> > each host (or virtual host can be managed by a sub or host
> >administrator.
> >>
> >> Anyway, if I can get that frontpg.ini "SMTPSender=" thing done for me
by
> >> the
> >> " person who runs the server" dude, and that particular
> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] was the address of the moderator of a mailing
> >> list,
> >> then I could create a FrontPage form on my website that would relay
> >> submissions from "guests" - and the IMail List Server would accept
them,
> >> right?
> >>
> >** Technically yes. That setting in the Frontpg.ini on a web server that
> >supports Front Page would make that change Global to all hosts. You
would
> >likely need your own dedicated server and leased line or at least a
> >dedicated box at your ISP to get that done for you. Hey, that is not
> beyond
> >the realm of possibility... probably your ISP would consider something
> like
> >letting you supply your own box for a few extra bucks a month to cover
> shelf
> >space and electricity??? Then you could get that level of customization.
> >
> >> Even if it were a "moderator only" list, right? (In that case I might
> >> password protect the form, and enable a few "vice-moderators".)
> >>
> >> But would that frontpg.ini setting prevent imailsrv.pl from spoofing
the
> >> subscribers email address when it sends commands to a list?
> >>
> >** settings in the Frontpg.ini only dictate how front page acts. The
> >IMAILSRV.PL relies on PERL which is not related to the Front Page
> >extensions. It is another runtime like Java's "Virtual Machine".
> >
> >> Gary Mauer
> >>
> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>
> >> Host/Moderator of the Window Cleaning Network
> >> - Your People, Product and Information Site -
> >> http://www.window-cleaning-net.com/
> >>
> >> Email Groups - 800 Networking Links
> >> 8 Bulletin Board and 21 Trade Show Links
> >>
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: Vaughn Thurman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >> Sent: Friday, June 04, 1999 12:56 PM
> >> Subject: [IMail Forum] A note about Open Relay and usefulness (Front
> Page
> >+
> >> Other gripes)
> >>
> >>
> >> > Front Page:
> >> > You can have Front Page assign a user name that it will use when
> sending
> >> > mail. That helps if you only allow "from local domains" or "local
> >> addresses
> >> > (if from a local address)". In the frontpg.ini do
> >> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > There is the question of, being an ISP how do you provide services to
> a
> >> wide
> >> > range of customer types and give them the flexibility they need while
> >> trying
> >> > to stay off of these damned "Orbiters", "Asteroids", and whatever
> other
> >> > list? I think this is a place where some accountability is in order
> not
> >> a
> >> > group of putz-weenies who want to power down the e-mail world to stop
> >> > spammers. Highways bring speeders, Oceans breed sharks, Big Cities
> have
> >> > high crime.... should we close the highways that lead to big cities,
> >> Oceans,
> >> > and fine anyone who we discover has people driving across thier yards
> in
> >> the
> >> > middle of the night?
> >> >
> >> > I for one am glad that IMAIL does not support the Black Holers,
> >Orbiters,
> >> > MAPSI's or any other gang of "need a lifers" that want to tell us how
> to
> >> run
> >> > our mail systems. I have restrictions in place. I monitor and
pursue
> >> > Spammers with bats if necessary, but I will not yield to the will of
a
> >> > "behaviour modifications system" bent on reducing functionality in
the
> >> name
> >> > of increasing security. There will be no need for security if the
> >> Internet
> >> > Mail system is not functional. No one will want to use it!
> >> >
> >> > Resist the temptation to yield to cowardly isolationism and fight
SPAM
> >> head
> >> > on. One dork at a time you can nail them good. I need to allow some
> >> > outside traffic so as not to inconvenience my customers and if you
use
> >my
> >> > few cracks to squeeze your mail through, I will send a follow up
> message
> >> > with your phone number on it to all of my users telling them that you
> >> want
> >> > to give them a new car, a few pounds of gold, or a free vacation to
> the
> >> > tropics. Like answering the phone all day for nothing? Or maybe I
> will
> >> > track down your family and call your mother and tell her what you do
> to
> >> make
> >> > a living (with a little color added). That protects me from SPAM in
a
> >> big
> >> > way. I am serious, I have done this and continue to do so. This is
> no
> >> > different than when a loud teenager in my niegborhood comes home with
> >his
> >> > radio blaring at 3AM. It is a pain to get up, cross the street in my
> >> > bathrobe and zap out on a kid in front of his friends, but it is the
> >kind
> >> of
> >> > thing you usually only have to do once. That is behavior
> modification!
> >> >
> >> > Vaughn Thurman
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
>
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