Hi Rrhankins,
On Thursday 31/08/2000 at 16:40, you wrote:
> My office network has no SMTP server, and my ISP will not allow me to
> remotely send mail through their SMTP server. I thought The Bat would allow
> me to send mail by acting as a SMTP server (or using a remote server?). Can
> someone help me with this???
TB doesn't do this, but there's a program called VPOP3 from
www.pscs.co.uk which acts as an SMTP server and sends email direct.
It's sometimes a problem if you're using a popular ISP though. They
usually hand out dynamic IP addresses, which have already been used by
other people to spam with. That IP address, when reported, gets into
the Realtime Blackhole List (RBL).
When you take on that dynamic IP address you get its reputation as
well. Most ISPs add a header onto email if the sender IP matches one
in the RBL, then many of the more popular email clients say "bleh,
that's spam" and throw it away.
The point being that if you mail direct, the email is seen as coming
from *your* assigned IP address and could be ignored if a spammer on
the same ISP was given that address. If you use an SMTP server though,
it doesn't happen. The ISP takes responsibility for its reputation.
Conclusion: It's possible, but comes with much greater risk of the
recipient not seeing the mail. Thank spammers.
HTH
"Don't touch that IP address! You don't know where it's been!"
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