On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Rabbit of Vugluskr wrote: > --> Why won't they use the local smtp server? (where they connected to) > --> > --> an ISP sells you a dial-up link natuarally you can relay mail to the > --> local > --> smtp server, right? > --> > --> Its *faster* > > You're right, but they are *salespersons*. I was solving exactly the > same problem a month ago, and when I advised our travellers just to use > ISP SMPT servers, they even didn't ask what SMTP is, they just told they > weren't ready to mess with technical issues (and, to be frank, I prefer > to sleep at night rather than be awaken in the middle of the night with > phone calls screaming "it does not send my email!", if they forgot or > just do not know how to found out what their current ISP is and what its > SMTP server is).
Just a simple question: how does this simple sales person know to which phone number to dial? I'm sure that some ppp- or dhcp-based solution could have been hacked if people wanted. an smtp server is just a local parameter as a DNS server, a WINS server and a number of other parameters exchanged in the DHCP protocol. > So who cares? I installed SMTP AUTH and let these guys sit for hours in > front on ther laptops waiting for their messages (sometimes - with some > graphics attachments) to be delivered though dial-up. Is the bottle-neck the modem line from the user to the ISP or from the ISP to you? -- Tzafrir Cohen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
