Earthlink, Eudora, and SMTP: yet another follow-up
Earthlink, Eudora, and SMTP: yet another follow-up
Frank Tansey contends: "Using an authenticated username and password does not always work if you are connecting to the Earthlink network. Up until Earthlink changed their policy, I always used another outbound account that supported authentication while on the road where I use Earthlink for access. Now I find that Earthlink blocks mail sent through my authenticated email account and forces me to use my Earthlink account exclusively if I am logged on to their network."
Kee Hinckley replies: "Eudora does support the AUTH SMTP extension. It isn't well documented (okay, it isn't documented at all), but it does work fine. Go to Personalitiess and make sure 'Allow Authorization' is checked - it's probably on by default. I require AUTH on the mail server I run - it's the only reliable way to prevent spammers from using your mail server and yet still allow people outside the network to make use of it. The only caveat on Eudora and AUTH is that there is no way of setting the password or account name used for AUTH, it will use the same password and account name as it uses for the POP account associated with the personality. Unfortunately most PC software does not support secure versions of the AUTH protocol - only sending passwords in the clear. Eudora, however, does support the secure versions. And of course, all of this requires that your company or ISP mail server be configured to support AUTH."
Get Earthlink to change Joshua Alexander would prefer that Earthlink solve the problem by modifying their restrictions. He writes: "All they have to do is allow connections to be made to the SMTP server from an IP that has checked email successfully on the POP server within a set time frame (at Cornell we use 30 minutes). Sure, the preventions Earthlink have taken to prevent spam relaying are "common", but other networks implement them in a much more user friendly way."