[ILUG] Re: Followup 3: Naive ADSL/WiFi questions [ cannot send e-mail ]

[Brian Foster]

  | From: Rory Byrne <rory at jinsky.com>
  | Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2007 16:28:15 +0200
  |
  | On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 01:10:51PM +0200, Brian Foster wrote:
  | >[ ... ]  550 relay not permitted (in reply to RCPT TO command)
  | >[ ... ]  any ideas?  what [I] should try?  test?
  |
  | 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.

 another new fact for the day; I don't recall
 every hearing of that trick before!  thanks
 for the suggestion.  the glitch is there's
 no POP/IMAP/incoming server mentioned at all
 in the instructions.  a quick search found a
 comment to the effect the ISP expects people
 to use Gmail or similar.   (I didn't even
 _think_ to check about e-mail when signing
 up!  not that it should matter, since they
 are implicitly claiming to provide outgoing
 services by providing instructions.)

 looking-up the more obvious POP/IMAP server
 names (e.g., pop3.xxx.yyy and so on) found
 nothing.   nonetheless, I'll fire an e-mail
 to support asking what the POP server is.

 still looking for ideas!  (thanks for all the
 suggestions.)
cheers!
	-blf-

p.s. again, apologies for breaking the threading.
    I'm reading the replies on my system with my
    local MUA, but replying via copy-and-pasting
    into Gmail ....  ;-\

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