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On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 09:18:51PM -0500, John Abreau wrote: > Those are two entirely different modes of operation. When you telnet > to port 25, the remote sendmail sees you as the direct end-user sending > the message, whereas when your sendmail relays your message to the > remote sendmail, the remote sendmail sees your sendmail as a middle-man. > While such relaying is part of the basic design of sendmail, the fact > remains that spammers have taken unscrupulous advantage of it for years, > and as a result it's now considered bad practice to allow relaying in any > but the most controlled and restricted fashion. > > The normal approach would be to ask your ISP to modify their server's > setup to allow relaying from your address. I wouldn't expect much > cooperation from them on this, though. Neither do I. Is there any way to get my sendmail mailer to imitate a direct connection? If not, do you know of a linux mailer that can? If not, do you know of a linux user mail program to replace mutt which sends mail to an external server?
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