[NTLUG:Discuss] Configuring emailed reports

[Jay Urish]

At 10:12 AM 9/13/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>Jay Urish wrote:
> > You don't have to... Thats how mail works. If you send your mail to
> > foo at fatso.com, your server does a DNS query against fatso.com and
> > looks for the MX record.
> > Thats how it knows where to send mail.
>
>So *that's* what those MX records are for! But if that's all it takes
>to find the correct smtp location, why do all of the email clients
>make you plug it in manually? (Unless the purpose is to keep a large
>number of tech support folks employed?)
>
>OK, we're almost there.
>
>This email account requires smtp authentication using the userid and
>password assigned to the account. Where do I store that information?
>(or are you going to tell me that's unnecessary, too?)


yikes! I wish I could tell you that. Your ISP must be using some cheesy ass 
windows SMTP server.
Most isp's allow all there net blocks to relay mail though their server.
I don't know what to tell you there. I would think that if the email is 
destined for THAT PARTICULAR mail server,
it would accept it, no authentication required.