Neil Hopcroft

A digital misfit

Does anyone else out there use Eudora? I’m seeing more and more of my outbound mails bounced as spam. I think this is because the version I use incorrectly sets the ehlo to the domain of the ‘from’ address you use rather than trying to figure out the actual machine name (or, at least, domain). Anyone got any config magic they can suggest that’ll fix this with v5.1? (I’m reluctant to upgrade since this version does all I need and my recent experience of ‘upgrade’ software versions has left me with a machine running slower and offering me plenty of confusing buttons for features I don’t want to use).

Alternatively, can someone suggest an unblocked open relay I could use for my normal mailing activities?

Or, as a further option, could Grandi put me on his authenticated sender list?


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  2. strange_complex

    Well, I use Eudora to pick up my university email from home. I’m using version 6, although I have some flavour of 5 before: it’s not that different, and I quickly got used to the new one.

    However, I’ve clearly never managed to get mine set up properly from the start either, whether it was 5 or 6. For some reason, I can receive messages with it, but if I try to send one, it says my connection has timed out. It’s very annoying!

    Apart from offering the sympathy of someone having similar difficulties, though, I doubt I can help you with your troubles, as I don’t understand anything in your post after the first two sentences!

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  3. neilh

    No, I’m on a wcdma/gprs service, which allocates IPs per connect, the problem is, I think, that my smarthost is japanese and identifies itself with some non-ascii characters, which some mail servers think means it is spam. It seems that Grandis main MX is ok, just the backup rejects me, so as long as I send again later after a failure it should get through.

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