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Request for assistance



On Tuesday 17 December 2002 09:16 am, Mark Glassberg wrote:
> I've been looking for a new isp and tried intergate.com.  They don't
> support linux, but everything went well until it came to sending mail.
> After much experimentation, it seems that their smtp service only
> recognizes mail where the domain of the sender is that of their dns'.
> Two questions:  Does this observation/conclusion make any sense?  If
> so, is there anything I can do to get my mail accepted?

Yes.  Most ISP's have this restriction to prevent relaying.

What can you do?  ummm... use their domain name?

What domain name are you trying to use?  Do you have your own mail server at 
home?  Tell us more about your setup.

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