sendmail authentication: correction

[John covici]

I have always done direct sending and have had a couple of domains
block it -- whereupon I used the sendmail mailertable to tell
sendmail to use my isp's outgoing smtp machine, but the rest I do
directly.

on Sunday 06/22/2003 Steve Holmes(steve at holmesgrown.com) wrote
 > I have had at least two ISP's do this a while back when I had dial-up
 > accounts.  But I must say that the default configurations for sendmail
 > in Slackware do direct sending and make no mention of smart hosting.
 > In fact, I used to smart host my mail to earthlink, the default mail
 > host for Sprint Brod Band and Earthlink's DNS would not resolve
 > properly for mail being sent to the speakup list.  I had to go back to
 > direct sending of my mail since Sprint's local DNS's were properly
 > configured and my mail would get through this way.
 > 
 > So now, all my "inside" machines on my LAN use a "smart host" to my
 > router/mailer, now running Slackware 9 and that machine dies a direct
 > send as I just mentioned.  I have Exim running on all my linux boxes
 > and life is good:).
 > 
 > On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 11:10:19AM -0500, Adam Myrow wrote:
 > > I think ISPS will block a dial-up or DHCP user who tries direct sending.
 > > I assume that more people on this list are using such a setup than those
 > > using a static IP.
 > > 
 > > 
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 > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca
 > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
 > 
 > -- 
 > Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments.
 >    See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
 > 
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 > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca
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         John Covici
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