Scott and Mark,
Maybe I'm missing something (or didn't read the articles I linked well enough), but why would Zhao's ISP matter if he were using his own SMTP server to send the mail from?
- Stephen
Scott Glasgow wrote:
I think you're right, Mark. My ISP stopped allowing mail relays through its SMTP servers a couple of years ago, and as of last month, IBM, where I work as a contractor, also established this policy. This caused some degree of consternation among IBM users, especially contractors, but it turned out that they had provided a single server per major geographic region which was open for relays from within IBM's network, so we could continue to use our other accounts to communicate.
One way he can test, if he has more than one account, is to try to send an email from one of his alternative accounts through his ISP's SMTP server. For example, I have an account with the consultancy for which I am employed. If I try to send an email from that account from my home system, which is a DSL account with my ISP, I receive an error message and the transmission fails. The message I typically receive in such an event (OE 6.0) is "No Socket error: 10060."
Although inconvenient, I can see the ISP's point of view; open relays are a primary vector for spam and DDOS attacks. It is unfortunate that the scumbags of the earth have forced such measures to be taken, but it is apparently now the nature of the online world.
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