Re: [Nolug] Using ssmtp to feed emails to my ISP

Ron Johnson wrote:

>>smtp.east.cox.net doesn't care about your username. As far as I know,
>>Cox doesn't use SMTP AUTH for customer relay. As long as it's coming
>>from a cox-owned, cable-modem attached CPE IP address, smtp.east.cox.net
>>will relay you. If you're talking about setting your From line, that's
>>stricly an MUA function and is not important for sending mail out.
>
>
> Oh, so that's what this is for...

You can spoof your "From: ..." line till the cows come home.
smtp.east.cox.net is not looking at that to determine if you are allowed
to send mail through it.

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