[DUG] Indy Smtp and XTRA

[Conor Boyd]

Yeah?
 
I haven't got the TelstraClear TOS available, but my recollection was
that you could run a server at home?  Not that I do...
 
Nice that you get a static IP with TelstraClear too.
 
C.

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From: delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz]
On Behalf Of Jeremy Coulter
 
Hi Rohit....I thought you were not alowed to run internet servers on
your home PC with Xtra? Atleast that was what they told me some time
ago, and even Paradise made that comment to me at some stage when I was
talking to one of their tech support guys, but then said...."its a
stupid and we dont enforce it" and neither does TelstraClear...as I run
a mailserver too :-)



	-----Original Message-----
	From: Rohit Gupta rohit at cfl.co.nz
	 
	What Xtra did was to classify their users as home or business.
For home users, outlook presumably sorts out the requirement of ssl.
And business users are using mail servers so they have to use SSL
explicitly.  The problem is that there are many users that are
businesses without a mail server and home users with a mailserver.  They
will have problems.  Add to that if you application does not support
SSL, then you are stuffed.
	
	At home, I run a mailserver called hamster.  
	
	It suddenly stopped working, it was still receiving some emails
(not all) but not sending any.  
	
	I tried the webmail - that did not work with IE or Firefox.  
	
	I  read the old emails from xtra, found one with a url link
which forced me to register for yahoo.  A page in the middle of the
registration told me to change the port numbers.  I did that but still
no luck.
	
	I had heard on the radio about business customers having
problems, so I enabled SSL3 on hamster.  Now the error message changed,
but still no luck.  Then I tried SSL2 and it burst into life.   When I
complained to the CEO, the reply was a link to their website - this one
tells you to use SSL :-)
	
	Basically, they still treat their customers like shit and act
like a monopoly.  They only reason I have not changed as that I dont
want to change my email address.  I will just have to get a domain name
for my emails.
	
	

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