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Date:	Fri, 1 Apr 2005 10:30:55 PST8
From:	"J. R. Fox" <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: Email SMTP SendMail DNS (was: DNS problem)

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Peter Skye wrote:

> -- 2. If, however, I run my own mail server (in my case SendMail but Weasel,
> INetMail or any other will do) then on my Verizon DSL line I can have my
> Netscape 2.02 send the message to my local SendMail which opens a connection

> totally bypasses the Verizon mail server so no AUTH is required (it's the
Verizon mail server which wants an AUTH handshake with every > message).

Yup, this being you, I knew there must be some Rube Goldberg contraption
involved. ;-)

> on port 25 (the SMTP port,

> -- 3. But in San Diego, I use Comcast. Comcast blocks port 25 (it's cable not
> DSL) so I can't run my own mail server.

Hasn't this become a pretty standard "No Go" area, for most of the providers
these days ?

> My Verizon connection is DSL DHCP.

So, fixed vs. dyanmic is not necessarily the determining factor, as to whether
AUTH is required . . . ? It appears to be a must for SBC - Yahoo -- unless you
are guided through some tricky workarounds -- and most of their customers are
using DHCP. (Not just DHCP: *normally*, you also need Win-Poet, which I gather
is an implementation of PPOE. I'm avoiding that fate by not having dynamic
service.)

> Verizon has also told me that if I switch to a fixed IP address instead of
> DHCP that I won't have to AUTH my @peterskye.com.

And that's how *they* do it, so this is at the discretion of the provider, or at
least per the design of the system they are using.

Jordan

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