10/24 Are there any public SMTP server we can use? I don't want to
shell out $20 for an ISP just for an SMTP server. thx.
\_ use localhost sendmail daemon. works for me.
\_ How do you get Internet access? This will likely give you some
SMTP server. (Or run Unix on your own computer and be your own
SMTP server.)
\_ somehow i doubt it's very likely that people using mail tools
which require a nonlocal relay would be running unix themselves
\_ Hence the suggestion, you see.
\_ ^would be running^would have the clue necessary to run
\_ Mighty oaks from little acorns grow.
\_ Yeah, I have the same problem. Use two ISPs, both of which I
don't pay for - sibling's ISP account and friend's college account.
Both of which refuse e-mails where the From: line isn't in the
right domain. For me the alternatives are to cough up the $ or
live on elm. :-/ Probably the latter.
\_ You don't need to run Unix to be your own SMTP server.
\_ You cheap bastards. Get your own ISP account. Sheesh.
\_ Just forge mail, it's easy
\_ not without an SMTP server.
\_ You know, to add to the fun, there's been some suggestion that
ISP's block outgoing tCP/25 from their dialup netblocks to all but
their own smtp server, to keep people from dialing in and spamming
directly. |