On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 10:47:13PM +0800, Gideon N. Guillen wrote: > On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 09:18:12 -0500, Michael Chaney > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What I've done to get around this is two-fold: > [snipped] > > I agree that this is the best solution for problems such as being > mobile, but it doesn't solve the problem of those who are using > pre-paid internet access (majority of us here in the Philippines use > prepaid internet access. This works by buying cards of certain > denomaniations that provides certain number of hours of access, and > scratch the somewhere at the back of the card to reveal the user name > and password. I bet these things also exists in other "third world > countries.") Of course, this would mean that I have to host the email > account somewhere else. Anyway, I think majority of users here in the > country use web based email accounts like Yahoo and Hotmail, so this > won't be much of a problem. It only becomes a problem for those of us > who are using POP3/IMAP accounts hosted somewhere outside the ISP > where we can only use POP3/IMAP, but not SMTP (an example of which is > the free Fastmail IMAP account, where they provide free IMAP access > but you have to use you ISP's smtp server to send outgoing mail). You > might say "why not pay for the service to use Fastmail's SMTP server", > but the problem is, many people here can't afford to pay that amount, > or they don't have access to a payment method that is accepted, like > credit cards (the credit card problem is not really that much of a > problem these days, but it was hard to get one 5 years ago). So > basically, you have no other choice but to relay your mail through > your ISP and "spoof" the email header.
I might not have made this clear, but I own an ISP. The point is that you should ask your ISP to provide the same service. It's not rocket science for them to allow their customers to use their smtp server for outbound mail, and it solves the problem. And, frankly, this is how it should be: if you're going to send email "from" a certain domain, then an official mail server for that domain has to authorize the sending of the email. Michael -- Michael Darrin Chaney [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.michaelchaney.com/ -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
