[PLUG] Dumb DNS Question?

[John Jordan]

On 1 Mar 2006, at 9:47, Paul Mullen wrote:

> Is Sylpheed configured to send outgoing e-mails to a Comast SMTP
> server? Can it be configured to send through a PSU SMTP server
> instead (or better, a different SMTP server for each account it's set
> up for).

Each of the three accounts sends through that account's SMTP 
server. 

> Comcast probably has their SMTP servers set up to not accept (without
> authentication, at least) incoming connections from IP addresses
> outside of a Comcast-controlled network.

Possibly true, except I had problems configuring Sylpheed for the 
Comcast account. Problem was that I had a typo in the password. 
Even so, I could send, I just couldn't receive. In the troubleshooting 
(before figuring out it was just a dumb-ass typing problem) I 
discovered that Comcast does not do any checking for passwords 
on sending. Still, it's possible that they check to see if it is coming 
from a Comcast user. However, that doesn't explain why the other 
two accounts also can't send. One is Hotpop and the other is a 
business account for a domain that I own, hosted at pairNetworks.