Re: [Sheflug] Hassles with Freeserve + email?

[Alex Hudson <nospam [at] alexhudson.com>]

On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 11:01:43PM +0100, Barrie Bremner wrote:
> I don't seem to be able to send email through Freeserve - all email
> seems to automagically route through their servers, and I get out of
> space, deferring message errors from QMail no matter where I send.

You should be using the smart host provided for you by your ISP then :)
Freeserve have (at least) two automagical routing schemes I know about -
they automagically redirect outgoing mail connections to their smart host,
and they automagically redirect web requests to a web proxy. Hence, stuff
like:

	telnet 10.1.1.1 80

. always connects* :(

Kind of a sucky setup, but I understand their reasoning. Is this to do with
the stuff your experiencing (you didn't make it clear whether this was a
sudden change for you, whether it's always been like this, etc..)?

Cheers,

Alex.

* unless you drop it yourself at your firewall ..
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