sendmail authentication: correction

[Toby Fisher]

On Sun, 22 Jun 2003, Adam Myrow wrote:

> On Sun, 22 Jun 2003, Andrew Hodgson wrote:
>
> > I take it there is a reason you can't do direct end-to-end delivery
> > using your copy of Sendmail?
>
> Well, nobody should do that.  Before I really knew what I was doing with
> Linux, that was what I attempted.  A large number of ISPS will bounce your
> mail if you do that.  They consider it a security risk since spammers love
> to use this method to send their garbage.

Only if you're on dial-up.  If you have a static ip address, then it's
kind of expected that you might want to consider doing your own mail
deliveries.

Cheers.

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