[ale] mail headers question

[Geoffrey]

Joe Steele wrote:
> On Friday, August 27, 2004, Geoffrey wrote:

>>Your assumption may well be correct though.  Question is, why does it
>>get through if I set my smtp server to my local machine?
> 
> 
> Why?  Because the message is no longer being forwarded by a server which 
> mindspring considers untrustworthy (mrelay.perfora.net).
> 
> In an ideal world, mindspring should accept mail from everywhere, as 
> long as it is addressed to mindspring recipients.  However, real-
> world circumstances force mindspring to reject mail from any source 
> they consider untrustworthy.  They have no reason to distrust you 
> and/or speedfactory, but they evidently don't trust perfora.net.  
> Apparently their distrust is well founded;  IMO, perfora.net should 
> not have relayed your message based on the circumstances given above.

So how else would you suggest that I configure this process to work?

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey       Registered Linux User #108567
                             AT&T Certified UNIX System Programmer - 1995