Re: Website Hosts

That is incorrect.  A Earthlink formerly Mindspring customer can not access
an outside mail server but an Earthlink/Sprint customer can.  Mindspring
accounts haven't been fully merged yet,

Tim

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason K. Chapman" <theguild(at)interserv.com>
To: "HWG Techniques" <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 6:11 AM
Subject: Re: Website Hosts


> At 08:38 PM 3/27/2001 -0500, Susan Duncan wrote:
> >The reason why most hosting companies
> >do this is that there are only a few packages out there that allow for
SMTP
> >user verification.  Our email server software does not do this and if I
> >allowed
> >people outside of our network to use our SMTP server, then anyone could
(with
> >the inherent spam issues that would cause).
>
> Not only that, but many ISP's block outbound access to port 25 at their
> network boundary to help prevent spam activities.  An Earthlink customer,
> for example, could not even connect to a standard SMTP server outside
> Earthlink's network.
>
> Jason K. Chapman
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