{"id":436,"date":"2002-11-18T10:59:10","date_gmt":"2002-11-18T15:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/?p=436"},"modified":"2002-11-18T10:59:10","modified_gmt":"2002-11-18T15:59:10","slug":"cutting-off-your-nose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/2002\/11\/18\/cutting-off-your-nose\/","title":{"rendered":"Cutting off your nose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been trying to send email to a certain company this weekend but I always get the response:<\/p>\n<p> smtp;550 5.0.0 Use your ISP&#8217;s SMTP server<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m told that it&#8217;s because I don&#8217;t use my ISP&#8217;s SMTP server for outbound messages.  Because this company&#8217;s ISP has decided that this could be a spammer tactic, they have decided to reject all mail from people who don&#8217;t send it through their ISP&#8217;s SMTP server.  &#8220;Sorry, no Honda Civics on this road, sir, some people use them as getaway cars, don&#8217;t you know.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few reasons why you might not send mail through your ISP&#8217;s SMTP server:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You use a non-windows system that uses the standard method of delivering mail via a local SMTP server.<\/li>\n<li>You have an ISP whose SMTP server only allows outbound mail from addresses in its own domain<\/li>\n<li>You have an ISP who requires POP access before allowing SMTP but you don&#8217;t care to use their POP mail<\/li>\n<li>You don&#8217;t trust your ISP&#8217;s SMTP server&#8217;s reliability<\/li>\n<li>You don&#8217;t trust your ISP&#8217;s DNS to reliably provide you the SMTP server address (you&#8217;re probably getting the idea that I have trust issues with my ISP)<\/li>\n<li>You use a laptop at home, at work, dialup, elsewhere, and you don&#8217;t want to have to change the SMTP server every time you send a message<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>SMTP is designed to work this way.  Breaking SMTP won&#8217;t fix the spam problem.  Rejecting mail that&#8217;s sent in this perfectly reasonable way will just cause reasonable people to stop trying to send you mail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been trying to send email to a certain company this weekend but I always get the response: smtp;550 5.0.0 Use your ISP&#8217;s SMTP server I&#8217;m told that it&#8217;s because I don&#8217;t use my ISP&#8217;s SMTP server for outbound messages. Because this company&#8217;s ISP has decided that this could be a spammer tactic, they have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}