Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.mixmin.net!news2.arglkargh.de!feeder.erje.net!border3.nntp.ams.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.bt.com!news.bt.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2012 18:49:41 -0500 From: spampling Subject: Re: RPC and BT? Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.misc Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 00:01:01 +0100 Message-ID: <5284a0c19cspam.pling@btinternet.com> References: <528464ae15dave@davenoise.co.uk> <52846a5395spam.pling@btinternet.com> <5284752fe6see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> User-Agent: Pluto/2.05-a1 (RISC-OS/4.02) NewsHound/v1.50-32 Organization: Que? Orga-what Lines: 26 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-AuthenticatedUsername: NoAuthUser X-Trace: sv3-rxShR6W9TeyUtvhWnOLQq94C2Tqfoyt6Smuf5jKw++VBAhESmfsU7bPEfoW+SUlTLQ510on8XL1vyKK!6tF9E1hHWjzE5bC8GaSN68CczOoDGRbhOwHkc28KCRCigk6hoewQ3I+u3d9OlKa9SWf/ X-Complaints-To: abuse@btinternet.com X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@btinternet.com X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2067 Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.acorn.misc:5071 In article <5284752fe6see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid>, Russell Hafter News wrote: > In article <52846a5395spam.pling@btinternet.com>, > spampling wrote: > > Works fine, but the individual user accounts have > > individual passwords that MUST be used when sending mail. > I have no intention of ever again, ever, having anything to > do with BT directly. I leave that soul-destroying task to my > telco. It is, in part, what I pay them for. > But, just out of interest, you could presumably still send > your e-mail via a third-party SMTP server using SMTP > Authentication? Or does BT block that too? It isn't blocking - each account name has its own security. The Pipex setup accepted stuff from one account for all the aliases, the BT setup has aliases available but also distinct account names. I carried on using the Pipex for a while after the change so that isn't blocked. -- Steve Pampling