On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 01:10:51PM +0200, Brian Foster wrote:
>> the instructions say to use smtp.te-dns.net
> as the SMTP server (and do not mention anything
> about authentication). my first attempt was to
> for my local SMTP server (postfix) to relay (same
> as I was doing over the 56K dialout straw), but
> that is refused (from the log):
>> 550 relay not permitted (in reply to RCPT TO command)
><snip/>
>> any ideas? what should try? test?
>
Hi Brian
You might want to try checking for incoming mail on your ISP's POP3 or
IMAP server just before you attempt to send mail via their outgoing SMTP
server.
ISPs often use this technique to authenticate you: they cache your IP
address when you authenticate successfully to their POP3 server and
they will relay mail originating from that IP for the next 10 minutes
of so.
Rory
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