Cox and email revisited

Augie Grayfox wrote:
> On Saturday January 31 2004 9:00 pm, Joe Toon <plug@geckohost.com> wrote:
> *v*Joe Toon <plug@geckohost.com>
> *v*To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> *v*Subject: Re: Cox and email revisited
> *v*Reply-To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> *v*
> *v*Augie Grayfox wrote:
> *v*> How the HELL is sending an email from my @cox address to my client's
> @xxx.com *v*> address be considered relaying?
> *v*> I thought that was just emailing somebody?
> *v*
> *v*I reread your original email and have a few questions:
> *v*
> *v*1. Is it only not allowing to this particular email address?
> *v*2. Have you sent to this email address previously, successfully?
> *v*3. Have you changed any SMTP settings that might cause it now to fail?
> *v*
> *v*I know when I was setting up my FreeBSD box to act as a central mail
> *v*server (relaying up to smtp.west.cox.net) I ended up having to use a
> *v*valid domain name before the cox server would accept my connection.
> *v*However, if your able to send to others and just not this particular
> *v*account, that doesn't seem to be a similar issue.
> *v*
> No Joe,
> I haven't made any changes and I've been emailing back and forth with this
> client at several of their address at their domain for over a year. That's
> why I thought it was so weird. It's just me on my desktop pc emailing to my
> client on her desktop pc. It's going from a cox.net address to my clients
> domain that's hosted by MegaPathdsl.net so cox' smtp blocking shouldn't
> affect this but obviosly they consider it relaying and if that's the case
> then anybody that emails from a cox.net address would also be considered a
> spammer. Just too weird. I can and have emailed others.
Not that I intend to defend Cox...

Your mailserver identifies itself as : azwebz ?

As long as your IP stays the same, your might have better luck using a valid,
full name that matches your IP address: ip68-2-118-161.ph.ph.cox.net

People are getting more strict with their mail servers....

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