RE: fix.your.open.relay.or.die.net

["Walden H. Leverich" <WaldenL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

James, you're referring (I believe) to a client "getting" mail. Brad is
correct when referring to a SERVER "getting" mail. SMTP servers listen on
port 25, that's how they "get" mail. BTW, you do have (should have!)
firewall rules that ALLOW you to get your mail, they're just looking for the
IMAP or POP3 ports.

-Walden


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Walden H Leverich III
President
Tech Software
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WaldenL@TechSoftInc.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: James Rich [mailto:james@eaerich.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 1:35 PM
To: midrange-l@midrange.com
Subject: Re: fix.your.open.relay.or.die.net


On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Brad Jensen wrote:

> If you mean they are coming to the SMTP server from various ip
> addresses on the net, that's the definition of open relay. You can't
> do that. You want to get your email over the internet? You have to
> dial in directly, or work from a fixed IP that is accepted by your
> firewall (or the SMTP server can accept/block ip addresses and
> ranges.)

SMTP is *not* used to *get* mail - only send.  I don't have an open relay
and I can get my mail from anywhere.  No special firewall rules, no special
software.

James Rich
james@eaerich.com

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