Aw: Re: [OT] CLI for noobies: The keys to GnuPG

[Albrecht Dreß]

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Am 02.07.04 15:55 schrieb(en) R. Hirschfeld:
> In the situation I had in mind, the MTA running on your Mac connects
> directly to the MTA of your mom's ISP (or in any case to a mail

Ah! You want to be your own ISP...

> exchanger for her domain), protecting your message on its way across
> the big bad internet.  If you route your outgoing mail through your
> own ISP's server, that counts as a relay and indeed all bets are off.
> Unfortunately it is becoming more and more necessary to do this if you
> don't have a static IP address, as many ISPs won't accept email
> originating from known dynamic IP ranges (as an anti-spam measure).

The other problem is that you have to set up a MTA on your box (so the =20
SMTP server in Mozilla/whatever is actually localhost) - with all the =20
problems if you're not online 24 hours per day, or if the recipient is =20
temporarily offline... It's just easier to pass it to the ISP and let it =20
fdo the dirty work.

> Agreed, but I'm not sure whether this is (yet) easy enough for
> non-techie Mom.

We're working hard to reach that point!

Cheers, Albrecht.


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