Solved! [ILUG] Followup 3: Naive ADSL/WiFi questions [ cannot send e-mail ]

[Brian Foster]

  | From: John Madden <john+ilug at jmadden.eu>
  | Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2007 21:20:20 +0100
  | 
  | On (05/09/07 20:22), Brian Foster said:
  | >  the ISP, X, is a (small) operation owned by a much
  | >  larger ISP, Y.  so with some of searching (mostly
  | >  en Français), I found the SMTP server for Y, and
  | >  tried that.  if you are reading this post, it's
  | >  (still) working ....  yea!
  | > 
  | >  I haven't checked (yet), but I don't think Y's an
  | >  open relay.  OTOH, I've no idea how (or even if?)
  | >  Y's authenticating?
  | 
  | I suspect it's done on allowing a subnet to relay through the SMTP
  | server, but disallowing all others. This is a common SMTP configuration
  | for network-serving SMTP servers.

 ah, yes, that could be it.  third new infobit
 for the day.  thanks!

  | Stick the SMTP address into http://www.abuse.net/relay.html and see if
  | it's an open relay!

 great minds think alike.  that's exactly what
 I was doing just yer post was arriving in my
 inbox ... and the answer is it's NOT an open
 relay.   hence, I conclude, the (small (and,
 as it happens, local)) ISP X fscked up the
 instructions or(/and?) server's configuration.
 (the instructions are fscked on another,
 unrelated, point, but what to do is obvious.)

cheers!
	-blf-
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