Re: smtp authentication (sendmail relay)

[Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>]

"Glenn Shiffer" <fubar@pobox.com> writes:

> I just got to reading this thread-
> 
> Glad to see you got the answer, it's a strange system, but the way it was
> explained to me when I used newsguy was this way they wern't and open relay.
> 
> Once the relay authinticates you, it will stay open for about 4 hours.
> 
> Glenn

When I first started using newsguy, it was still `zippo' and
`superzippo'.  I always wished they hadn't made that dorky name
change.  I liked `reader@superzippo.com' better but The Zippo company
of cigarette lighter fame sued them and they had to change there name.

Back then you could telnet right into the pop server, login, stomp
around in there, run a shell, edit/read or whatever /var/spool/mail/USER

I remember getting a message from some automated cron job on their pop
server for weeks after I had a vi session crash and leave a *.swp file
in there. 

That was early  97 or so.

My trouble turned out to be a little different.  

Not a reverse MX lookup.  That was in place 

The bank of phones that my dialup at home uses goes to a machine that
talks to my ISP some 130 miles away it does something (unknown)
unusual and the smtp server won't talk to it.  Same reason the smtp
server on newsguy wouldn't talk to it. (I think) .... They are
supposed to be fixing that.