Yahoo DSL's SMTP sucks

[dugawug]

i unfortunately have Yahoo SBC DSL as my ISP, and they seem to hold a limitation that you can use no other SMTP server than theirs...

i'm trying my damnest to get around this...but i'm a newbie geek. :bemused:

does anyone know in theory, using a "normal" ISP, can you simply use your own local machine's SMTP server and send your own mass emailers with it? i have a machine running XP pro SP2 w/ IIS and SMTP installed. i've tried configuring it and had no luck.

[piersk]

A lot of ISPs block port 25 to anything else other than their own smtp servers. Try using port 26

[kubis]

besides that a lot of anti-spam software like the spamassasin checks where the email is originating from a smtp server located in ip address block that belongs to cable/dsl/other broadband users and denies them as possible spam. at least my spamassasin does :). its a good measure against spreading viruses etc.

[dalecosp]

Hrm, Sendmail has a SMART_HOST define (or something like that), but I'm not sure exactly what it does. I *think* that basically it acts like a local MTA, but actually connects to the ISP's mailserver to do the real work.

Depending on what you're trying to do, (you mentioned "mass emailers" :eek: ), it might be something to read up on.

Assuming, of course, that you're using Sendmail. Probably Postfix has something like this, too..

Of course, after I posted I noted that you'd said you're a Windoze user. Personally, I do very little on Windoze except gaming and fixing many broken ones.... However, if the technology is available to good ole King James Sendmail, then it's likely there are a few MTA's that could do similar things for Windoze, and you might even find one at SourceForge (http://www.sourceforge.net) for free, etc., etc...

[piersk]

Microsoft SMTP does... well I know exchange does so I'm assuming that SMTP does too