[Cialug] SMTP Relay

[Dave Weis]

On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, David Champion wrote:
> James Shoemaker wrote:
>>   Anyone have a favorite SMTP relay provider?  I have a static IP, but
>> no reverse DNS to it and I have started getting issues sending email to
>> some domains so I need a system to relay through that has proper DNS
>> entries.  Don't mention using my provider's SMTP server as they don't
>> provide one, just webmail.  Switching providers is also not an option as
>> they are the only one.
>
> Speaking of smtp... what are people doing for allowing remote smtp
> authentication? I'm using pop-before-smtp. It kinda works, but has
> problems. To use it, I have to start my email client, the send an email
> to myself (or anyone at my domain). If I don't do this, and try to send
> an email to anyone outside, I get a relaying denied message. After a
> while (30 minutes or so) the session times out, and I'll start getting
> the relaying denied message. I have to close the email client and start
> it again, and send myself another message...

They invented something called "smtp authentication" that lets you avoid 
hacks like this ;-) It uses an encrypted username and password for SMTP 
itself.

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Dave Weis
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