On Tuesday 30 November 2004 13:27, Laurie Miles wrote:
> I was sending to smtp1.nhs,net, using my nhsnet account details.
relay.nhs.uk is active and in my experience reliable.
I have emailed the postmaster to see if any change is to occur, and have no
reply as yet.
However there is some checking on that as well.
> In the
> FROM field in my e-mail I had my [log in to unmask] e-mail
> address, as Yahoo mail and some other mailing lists (notably
> [log in to unmask]) bounce e-mails unless this field matches with a known
> mailing list member.
Any SMTP server I was administering would refuse to relay your mail if you did
that.
Use the Reply-To: field if you want returns to go elsewhere.
> Over the weekend some helpful NHSnet person has decided to verify each
> mail sent via the nhsnet SMTP server to see if it has an acceptable
> domain. So the e-mails as sent above were bounced (after one day). If I
> change my mail client settings so that the FROM field says
> [log in to unmask] then my mails get through.
> I suppose one answer is to change all my mailing lists to my nhs.net
> account. But this service is so utterly unreliable that I am not prepared
> to use it - as above, the time taken to "bounce" an e-mail is
> unacceptable, for example.
Gotta use something else then, I guess.
> I would dearly love to wipe out my NHSnet connection and have a reliable
> and cheaper cable or ADSL connection to the Internet.
Do then.
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