* Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> [12-01-12 11:07]: > On 2012-12-01, Patrick Shanahan <ptilopt...@gmail.com> wrote: ... > > I am not explaining properly/sufficiently. Yahoo *requires* your posting > > addr matches your smtp.
:^) > Ah, that's indeed quite different than what you wrote previously. > Requring that the From: address match up with the sending SMTP server > is not an unusual anti-spam measure. > > > Mine does not and I will not open *more* spam floodgates. > > All you need to do is to send the message via the GMail smtp server. > How does that "open more spam floodgates"? I have mutt configured to > send mail via GMail's SMTP server when I'm using my GMail address, and > I don't think it's created any additional spam. I now *only* post via my isp's smtp. I previously posted by my own location smtp but it became increasingly difficult to bypass problems encompassed by posting from a dynamic ip and relented. I do not want to used email addrs at my isp! > > I post via my isp using a gmail addr and my isp smtp. It does not > > match yahoo's req's as the posting addr and smtp do not match. > > In the past, I've found that causes problems with other destinations > as well. I suspect it's comparing the From: address, the envelope > from, the SMTP sender, and the Return-Path: values. If they don't > match up in certain ways, it's being tossed as likely spam/phishing. I > know my employer's MS Outlook server does that, though I don't > remember exactly which combinations have to match... I have not found this, yet :) -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA HOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://linuxcounter.net
