pine

[randy turner]

i am very green on this,
the only way that i know to setup up my mail is
through my mail server and that is
mail.texasisp.com
sending and recieving email is a pretty vast subject.
thanks again
randy


On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, Janina Sajka wrote:

> No, I don't understand this.
>
> With a connection to the Internet, your own smtp agent can direct mail
> wherever it determines is the next delivery relay. That's the meaning of
> having your mta configured and working for smtp. Whether or not it's
> advisable in your circumstances, depends on your circumstances. In my
> case, I'm fulfilling that function for myself, and when I'm on the road,
> I authenticate with my home server for this service.
>
> But, you don't need your ISP to play smtp for you. That's your
> choice--unless they're blocking outbound packets from your machine. If
> they're doing that, dump them and get someone who doesn't do that. If
> they're blocking outbound traffic, you'll have all kinds of trouble with
> them forever. It may be mail today, it will be something else tomorrow,
> and then something still beyond tomorrow.
>
> randy turner writes:
>>
>> but even with sendmail i still have to go through my isp,
>> as long as i recieve mail first i am ok,
>> thanks
>> randy
>>
>>
>> On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, Janina Sajka wrote:
>>
>>> So, case in point? No?
>>>
>>> Why rely on the ISP to send your mail? Get that sendmail, or exim, or
>>> whatever, working and use it.
>>>
>>> Sorry if I dived in here late and missed something salient.
>>>
>>> Adam Myrow writes:
>>>> On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, randy turner wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> well i have to run get-mail first,
>>>>> then pine will send the message like it should
>>>>> does this give any one any ideas?
>>>>
>>>> It's a feature of your ISP which forces you to authenticate with your POP
>>>> server, and then, it will let you send mail for a limited time.  I think
>>>> it's some sort of anti-spam measure, and unfortunately, there's not much
>>>> you can do about it except always check your mail right before you send,
>>>> or get another ISP.
>>>>
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