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Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh From: Mark Coletti <mcoletti@lychnobite.org> Subject: Trying to send e-mail through an SMTP server Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 20:52:40 GMT I see plenty of documentation regarding *getting* e-mail from a POP/IMAP server, but I cannot find any documentation on *sending* e-mail through, say, an SMTP server. I have a web hosting account at a local ISP. I share a cable modem in a house; the cable modem ISP is not the same as my web hosting ISP. I've set up masquerading for my ISP. However, when I send e-mail to an Earthlink address, Earthlink sees that I'm coming from the cable modem, but stating that I'm coming from somewhere else. So, it bounces my e-mail. I can resolve this problem by sending my e-mail through my ISP's SMTP server. However, I just can "servers: remote.server" because my ISP naturally doesn't allow relaying. What I need to do is sort of the inverse for some of the POP/IMAP solutions. That is, I need to log into the SMTP server with my username and password and *then* send my e-mail through. Is there a way to do that with MH? (Or, more specifically, NMH?) === Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh Subject: Re: Trying to send e-mail through an SMTP server From: 5aea3fc@vzpeak.com.db Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 23:56:40 GMT |I have a web hosting account at a local ISP. I share a cable modem in a |house; the cable modem ISP is not the same as my web hosting ISP. I've |set up masquerading for my ISP. However, when I send e-mail to an |Earthlink address, Earthlink sees that I'm coming from the cable modem, |but stating that I'm coming from somewhere else. So, it bounces my |e-mail. Yes, lots of SMTP servers reject connections from broadband addresses these days due to spam, unfortunately. |I can resolve this problem by sending my e-mail through my ISP's SMTP |server. However, I just can "servers: remote.server" because my ISP |naturally doesn't allow relaying. What I need to do is sort of the |inverse for some of the POP/IMAP solutions. That is, I need to log into |the SMTP server with my username and password and *then* send my e-mail |through. Is there a way to do that with MH? (Or, more specifically, |NMH?) Does your ISP support SMTP after POP? I have no idea how you'd get this working with MH, but if you can fetch your email with POP, authenticating for this, then you are cleared to use SMTP to send mail, for a short period. === Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh From: Mark Coletti <mcoletti@lychnobite.org> Subject: Re: Trying to send e-mail through an SMTP server Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 22:07:45 GMT 5aea3fc wrote: > Does your ISP support SMTP after POP? I have no idea how you'd get this > working with MH, but if you can fetch your email with POP, > authenticating for this, then you are cleared to use SMTP to send mail, > for a short period. My ISP does support POP-before-SMTP, and your solution is the one they gave me. Since I use fetchmail to regularly get my e-mail, then I'm implicitly authorized to relay through their mail server for a time. The key is insuring that the fetchmail daemon's refresh period is less than the mail relay permission window. ;) (The reason I didn't find out by accident that I could relay through their server by happening to use fetchmail to get authentication is that I just moved to this ISP and hadn't set up fetchmail at the time yet.) However, it'd be nice if the nmh/mh authors would give server authentication ability to send and post for those that choose to rely entirely on MH for getting _and_ sending e-mail. (And it would restore functional symmetry that's now apparently non-existent.) ===