Subj : A little help...
To   : Andrew Leary
From : Peter Knapper
Date : Thu May 11 2006 09:05 pm

Hi Andrew,

 AL> Someday when I have nothing else to do I'll play with IBM's OS/2 version
 AL> of SENDMAIL.  Of course, right now I'm schedule to be busy until 2 years
 AL> after I die. ;-)

The OS/2 SENDMAIL works pretty much standard, once you know SENDMAIL on one 
system, its the same on another, as the OS/2 one is a drop in replacement for a 
unix SENDMAIL. 

The one catch with using your own SMTPD is authentication issues with target 
sites. At the most basic level, a receiving Mailer will NOT accept your SMTPD 
traffic unless they can validate you via reverse DNS to confirm you are who you 
say you are. This reduces the amount of spamming etc... so its not a bad idea 
to set up a DNS that will validte your setup if you are really serious about 
it.

I now route all outbound mail via my ISP's SMTPD and let them handle the 
authentication issues.......;-) 

Cheers..............pk.


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