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.

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