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On Wednesday 23 Jul 2003 7:21 pm, Paul Weaver wrote: > Grahh I hate these things. I want to set up a wireless hotspot in our > internet cafe here in Greece, no problem you may think. However people come > in with their laptops all set up for their own email accounts - using their > ISP's smtp servers. Now the problem is that forthnet's smtp servers wont > relay mail from our ISP (otenet), meaning I have to manually change their > email settings, then change them back after. Many ISP's won't allow emails to be sent via their SMTP servers unless the user is logged into their own network (i.e. using their PPP connection not yours). It won't just be one ISP, it'll be lots. The problem isn't really at your end. > > Is there anyway to avoid this? I was thinking forwarding all outgoing > requests to port 25 to the otenet smtp server. Would that work? Is there a > simpler way? Won't this open you up to spammers? -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.codehelp.co.uk http://www.dclug.org.uk http://slashdot.org/~codehelp
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