From: Michael Geary (Mike_at_Geary.com)
Date: Sat Jan 13 2001 - 13:40:57 EST
> From: Stephen Hosmer [mailto:hosmer_at_royl.com]
>
> Most SMTP servers will not relay mail from outside a know subnet.
> The best way to send mail while on the road is to use your pop
> account as the send agent. Most decent email clients will allow
> configuration to send via SMTP or POP. The POP method uploads
> the email to the POP server after authentication, and then the POP
> server relays the email as local.
Stephen, the POP3 protocol does not provide any way to send email, only to
receive it. Just to be sure, I double-checked the RFCs. The most recent one
for POP3 appears to be RFC 1939:
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1939.html
Maybe you are thinking of "SMTP after POP"? This is where your ISP's POP3
server will remember your IP address for a short time (typically 15 minutes)
after you make a POP3 connection, and then their SMTP server will allow
connections from that IP address during that time period.
Or could you be thinking of SMTP authentication, where you can provide a
password to authenticate you on the SMTP server?
Either of these methods works well, but only if your ISP supports them.
The most general method for sending email from anywhere is to run an SMTP
server on your ThinkPad, such as the one in Windows 2000, or VPOP3 or the
like. That bypasses your ISP's SMTP server completely, so it doesn't matter
what your ISP does or doesn't support.
-Mike
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