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On Monday 03 April 2006 9:20 am, Christopher Schmidt wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 09:06:34AM -0400, Larry Underhill wrote:
> > * "smart hosts" relay to smtp.comcast.net
>
> If you're using a 'smart host' relay, then you're not really sending
> mail from your home mail server. This is the difference in the two
> situations (I'd be willing to bet).
I agree here. I found that out a couple of years ago and had set up a 
mailertable when sending to AOL (and other AOL sites like netscape). Mail 
to those sites went to blu.org, mail to comcast sites went through 
smtp.comcast.net, and the rest was direct. More recently I simply use a 
smarthost. 
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