Relayin E-mails

Simple answer is you can't (or shouldn't), without first authenticating.

I'm assuming you're getting an anti relaying message from your isp right now.

Relaying is where you are connected to your isp, say earthlink, and you are trying to sendout an email through another isp, say aol. ISP's don't allow this because spammers use it.

There are times when you would want to do this, maybe if your isp doesn't provide an web based email or you're not set up or whatever. Usually you're outof town and want to use your usual email.

To go ahead with the relay, go into your email account settings to the smtp area, and somewhere there's an "authenticate before sending" (or equivalent) option that needs to be checked off. This pre-authentication will allow you to relay.

However, some ISPs or mail service providers do NOT allow the end-users to turn off authentication requirements. On my mail server, I require all users to authenticate prior to being able to relay. Therefore, there's no setting in their client that they can turn off to get around this - nor can they login via the web interface and disable the requirement, as it's a global requirement that can only be turned off by me. Which won't happen in order to keep the mail server off the ORDB list. :-)

Sean