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Re: email questions...



On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 20:07, Mario Flores wrote:
> Hi:
> 
> After some testing, I found that I can send email to some addresses and 
> cannot do it for others. I get the following error:
> 
> SMTP<< 550 You are not allowed to send mail:sc001pub.verizon.net
> 
> this was when I tried to send a message to my email account with my ISP. 
> I was able to send msg to a hotmail account. I was not able to send msg 
> to other accounts (other domains) but did not get the error above either 
> (maybe the msg gets filtered based on some criteria like fake dns name?).
> 
> My big questions is why can't I send this email from my local account 
> and I can send it via Mozilla (using my ISP account). I read somewhere 
> that POP is for retrieving email from the server and smtp is used for 
> outbound messages (from the email agent like mozilla to the mail server).
> 

Most well configured mail servers will not accept mail from dynamic IP's
and/or hosts with no MX record. If you are trying to send mail out using
your own mail server then you most likely have it misconfigured. 

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