On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 11:54:57AM -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > no, not so. And I can do the same from windoz. > It is nothing to do with *nix but with > *configuration* of your mailing system.
nope, what you describe is UNIX/ARPA mail, nothing to do with Windoze -- but there are certain problems, like your account/auth info hosted on gmail/yahoo/whatever instead of the defaul mail forwarder on your ISP. And gmail accepting your mail submitted via your ISP is big bloody hole, and we both know that. > But it is a major pain to do your own smtp from > a non-dedicated domain. Almost everyone is using msmtp instead of sendmail/qmail/exim/postfix these days. > afa port 25, some isp's block port 25 service, > but this is easily worked around. Wrong -- outgoing port 25 is blocked here (EV-DO) for everyone, but I didn't check it for my other [DOCSIS] ISP. -- With best regards, xrgtn
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