At 14:31 28/02/2001 -0600, Josh Harding wrote:
>"Simon P. Lucy" wrote:
> > Relaying is allowed for the correct IP addresses, so mail sent from any
> > account is fine so long as the smtp server is correct for the current
> > connection. The trick would be to capture or have the user specify the
> > subnet for each ISP and have a vestigial ISP account. At the time of
> > sending the current list of IP addresses (a machine may have more than one,
> > their local LAN IP address and any Internet routed address), would be
> > matched against the ISP subnets and the currently valid SMTP server chosen
> > accordingly.
>
>I agree that it would be nice if Moz could tell on it's own. But there
>are times when you'll have no way of knowing. Here's a potentially
>common example:
>
>Small home network with a modem in one machine. The machine with the
>modem is running (Win98SE/WinME/Win2K). When dialed in, this machine
>uses Internet Connection Sharing (NAT & DHCP server) so the others can
>access the 'net. The other machines on the home network get IPs in the
>range: 192.168.0.2+ If you're running Moz on one of the other machines,
>you have no way of telling which ISP the modem is dialed into, your IP
>doesn't change.
This is true Internet Connection Sharing or any other proxy based
connection is harder to detect though not impossible especially if there is
a little helper program running on the machine actually connected to the ISP.
>So even if Moz can detect this automatically (which would be good),
>there will still need to be a way to specify for situations where it
>can't detect, or worse: detects incorrectly.
Yes this true and the more I think about it for those cases it would be
best to have a helper program which reported back the actual Internet IP
address. The methods by which it could be accessed and reported are many
and various, port addresses, NetDDE, http or even writing a file in a well
known place. For simplicity a http server running on its own port might be
the simplest for the user as its less for them to do.
And of course when it comes down to it a way for the user to specify
themselves which ISP/SMTP to use.
Simon
> The Amigo
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