Jorge Fábregas wrote:
On Saturday 24 July 2004 2:21 pm, John Thompson wrote:
Many ISPs have taken to blocking port 25 connections from dynamic IP addesses as these are frequently spam bots. Instead, tell sendmail to use your ISP's smtp service as a "smart host" -- define(`SMART_HOST',`smtp.your.provider') in sendmail.mc, generate a new sendmail.cf by running "make -C /etc/mail" and restart sendmail. Your outbound email will be routed through your ISP's smtp service for delivery.
Why would you do that? Instead of specifying your ISP's MTA in your MUA? Any benefit?
If you only have a single machine connected to the internet, that's fine. But if you have a network on which you need to run your own smtp service you'll want to use the smart_host.
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-John (john@xxxxxxxxxxx)
