[ale] Earthlink vs. Send Mail

[jloden at toughguy.net (Jay Loden)]

i also have Earthlink, and when I was running a mail server in my apartment, I 
just used earthlink's smtp servers (set it as a relay host in my postfix 
config).  

Out of curiousity, is there some reason you have to use your own smtp server?  
What's the problem with using Earthlink's server?

-Jay


On Thursday 02 December 2004 01:10 pm, Oysgelt,  Moisey G [IBM Contractor for 
Sprint] wrote:
> I've underestimated SendMail settings.
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> I'm enjoining using SUSE 8.0 at my home computer.
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> I have Earthlink as my ISP provider.
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> When I tried to configure Send Mail with my authentication I got an
> error.
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> My Investigation shoed that Earthlink blocked port 25 for sending mail,
> from any other than client email applications.
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> Is there a way to configure Send Mail to accept my credentials and use
> it as my local mail server?
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> I'd look into Send Mail document and did not find any reliable answer.
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> Any tips will be appreciated.
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> Moisey O