Re: msmtp Questions
On Sunday 19 July 2015 00:45:02 David Wright wrote:
> Quoting Lisi Reisz (lisi.reisz@gmail.com):
> > On Saturday 18 July 2015 13:13:56 Martin G. McCormick wrote:
> > > domain = localhost
> >
> > I'm sleepy and probably not following very well, but should this really
> > be localhost?
>
> This was passed to the ehlo command where it passed muster:
>
> <-- 220 txofep01.suddenlink.net ESMTP server (InterMail vM.8.04.03.20
> 201-2389-100-164-20150330) ready Sat, 18 Jul 2015 06:45:58 -0500 --> EHLO
> localhost
> <-- 250-txofep01.suddenlink.net
> <-- 250-HELP
>
> AIUI by the time you send ehlo, any certificate required by the server
> will already have been exchanged. However, whereas you might be
> concerned that you're sending your emails to the right smarthost, they
> should be unconcerned because they're about to force you to
> authenticate with them. After all, I might be using any old computer
> to run exim/msmtp.
>
> Where you don't authenticate (like my ISP), then they know you're at
> the end of a piece of wire that they rent you.
>
> So it's futile for the smarthost to bother to check it.
:-)
Thanks.
Lisi
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