blocked by my ISP's smtp server

[Simon Hobson]

new wrote:

>I have an ADSL connection with a french provider (wanadoo) with dynamic IP
>and a network with a gateway with a e-smith server (SME 5.5) and I use a
>DNS cache for my network on this SME box. I have domain with dynds.org. All
>works fine, except a "little" problem.
>
>When I try to join the news.wanadoo.fr newsgroup server I can't join it,
>when I try to send a mail with smtp.wanadoo.fr I have a message :
>  =AB<name at domain.tld>: Recipient address rejected: Relaying not allowed =
=BB,
>when I send a mail with my qmail on the gateway no problem.
>
>I suppose the problem is my ISP see me like an "external user" when I try t=
o
>connect to news or smtp.

I vaguely recall that Wanadoo is one of those=20
ISPs that won't allow you to send mail that has a=20
from address that is not 'theirs'. Or put another=20
way, if you are user at someaccount.wanadoo.fr, then=20
your from address must be=20
<something>@someaccount.wanadoo.fr or=20
<somthing>@<something>.wanadoo.fr (it varies=20
between ISPs as to how strict they are).

If you try to send mail with a from address of=20
user at mydomain.com then it blocks it (unless you=20
have made separate arrangements to handle the=20
domain mydomain.com through them - which is=20
usually an extra cost).

One way round this (for mail) is to simply ignore=20
their servers and deliver mail directly, or=20
better still, find a better ISP that doesn't put=20
these restrictions on you.

Simon

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