Sendmail: Proxy server or whatever

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Or even Netscape/Mozilla mail.

On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Aaron Grewell wrote:

> This is a common anti-spammer tactic.  If the previous caller's
> smarthost suggestion doesn't work you'll either need an MX record (sort
> of a pain with a dynamic address) or you'll have to find out how to use
> comcast's SMTP server directly.  Unless they're contracting with MSN
> this shouldn't be too tough, just ask them how to set up Eudora to send
> mail.  The instructions should apply equally well to any non-ms product
> regardless of platform since Eudora is standards-compliant.  I often use
> this when dealing with unenlightened ISP's because Eudora is so common.
>
>
> On Thu, 2003-01-30 at 06:34, Joel Hammer wrote:
> > My ip is dynamic. It doesn't change much, but it can change.
> > Joel
> > On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 07:15:22AM -0500, John Voigt wrote:
> > > On 01/30/2003 01:35 AM, ronnie gauthier wrote:
> > >
> > > > If comcast allows what you are doing it may be as simple as asking them to put
> > > > you into their reverse lookup table.
> > >
> > > This is one option, but if it is a typical cable ISP, it's not likely to
> > > happen.
> > >
> > > >
> > > >>I am on comcast cable. I run sendmail to directly send mail to my
> > > >>recipients.
> > > >>
> > > >>Of late, some sites, eg. aol.com,  are rejecting my mail, telling me I
> > > >>should be using my isp's mail server.
> > > >>
> > > >>Comcast can be a very linux hostile environment. I don't really want to talk
> > > >>to them about mail. However, I would like to either relay through their mail
> > > >>server or masquerade my mail to have their mail server's ip.

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