[thelist] An SMTP service without authentication

[Pete Freitag]

I think your best bet would be to setup a mail server on the localhost, and set it to only allow relaying from 127.0.0.1 you can do this with Microsoft SMTP server, and many others.


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john at johnallsopp.co.uk wrote:

>Hi
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>I've a client that has some software that sends orders by email. It
>appears it doesn't support SMTP servers that require authentication. It's
>fairly old software and although there's an update available, he prefers
>the old version.
>
>It might sound like a daft question, but where can I go to get an email
>service this software will use, ie. an SMTP server that doesn't require
>authentication?
>
>Or .. am I barking up the wrong tree.
>
>Cheers
>J
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