Mail problems with freebsd.org

[Ben Smithurst]

Mark Ovens wrote:

> On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 08:01:56PM +0100, Scott Mitchell wrote:
>
>> OTOH, they don't hijack outgoing SMTP connections, so I could quite happily 
>> deliver the mail directly to freebsd.org.
> 
> I am waiting for my CD to arrive from NTL. Could you explain that last
> sentence? You mean that you can send mail without using NTLs mail
> servers?

Yes, you just run your own machine as a smarthost effectively, and
let your MTA behave as it should.  Don't try this with a dynamic IP
though as many sites will refuse SMTP connections from IPs in dynamic IP
ranges.

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