>They might be doing you a favour...sort of.
>
>If you are on a dialup, chances are the ip they give you is in the dialup
>RBL lists, so many well-run mail servers would block you - mine for one.
I'm on a DSL line, and so far I've only encountered one site which blocks my
attempts.
>If you use your ISP's mail server as a smarthost (ie relay through it)
>you will be OK since there server is not in the RBL blocks (assuming they
>are competent).
>Don't worry that they are running a relay - it will only be for their
>customers, so not open.
Hmm... so in other words, I could just send all my outgoing mail to my isp's
mail server and let them send it. But will my isp change the "From:" address
to match my account? It shouldn't right?
Sincerely,
Sandro
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