last updated at 10 Jan, 2007 17:31 (1 times)
Dave (06 Jan, 2007 05:53):
Much to my chagrin I learned I was using an ISP who blocked SMTP mail to a remote domain. Nothing PMMail could do would fix that.I'm having trouble finding an ISP who will support what I want to do.
Does anyone know of a U.S. based ISP that will allow dial-in and email access (technically called relaying) to a remote domain? I'm not a spammer, just someone who maintains several small domains and wants domain email to come from that domain.
Ask the people who run the SMTP server you want to use if they accept ASMTP connections on an another port. Many offer this, and it is generally a better solution than pressing ISP's to open port 25 for everyone, as that is also the port viruses use to send out.
Another option, which I have done in this situation, is to set up your mail client or an smtp proxy to authenticate with your ISP's SMTP server while still using the From address of your other domain. Many will allow this, because although it is in a sense "faked," your authentication keeps you accountable for any abuse. Mind you, the way some SMTP servers work authentication is they let you send if you have just fetched with authentication at the POP server, so it could get complicated, but certainly doable.
The smtp proxy is a simple program that will accept your SMTP requests and pass them on to a server, working with each the way you configure. It's a handy tool for clients and servers that are incompatible for one reason or another. It would let you do ASMTP with a client like PMMail which doesn't have the feature built in. The one I used was for Windows, freely downloadable, whose name I have long forgotten. I am sure many exist for Linux, which means if you found one you like it could be ported to OS/2.