[NCLUG] Re: using smtp

[rosing at peakfive.com]

NCLUG says:

 > That's a pretty lame thing for an mail administrator to do.

Yes it is.

 > > So I changed emacs to run my outgoing mail through mail.frii.com and
 > > that fixes it.
 > 
 > But if you are a customer of attbi.com then why send mail through
 > frii.com, a separate business?  And I wouldn't have thought frii.com
 > would have allowed it.  On attbi.com I would have expected you to
 > forward it through the attbi.com mail hub.

I host my domain at frii and get all my mail through there.  I just
use attbi for the cable modem.  But you're right that it's odd that
frii takes it without some sort of password.  Whatever this other
domain is trying to do is beyond me.  It won't stop spam.

 > Somewhere in your sendmail.cf file there is a line like:
 > 
 > # "Smart" relay host (may be null)
 > DSmail.frii.com

Thanks! 

Matt