| What is SMTP Authentication (ASMTP)? Wow, I can send mail from ANY connection? |
Normally when E-Mail is sent, it's sent "non-authenticated" which means that while your Incoming mail connection requires a login and password to RECEIVE your E-Mail, your Outgoing E-Mail (SMTP) does not.
Typically, your OUTGOING E-Mail (SMTP) is sent via the ISP your connected to. That's called local delivery and is how 90% or more E-Mail is sent on the Internet. You currently receive your E-Mail from your Incoming E-Mail server (which can be hosted anywhere), but you send OUT your local connection (Outgoing Server).
A new technology, ASMTP (SMTP Authentication) is where your OUTGOING E-Mail (SMTP) is ALSO sent using a login and password. This means that you then become a "trusted" mail sender, having identified yourself. We support ASNMP.
In short, Authenticated sending (ASMTP) allows you to use us as not only your Incoming (POP3) mail server, but also as your Outgoing (SMTP) mail server, by basically having your mail program give your same login/password each time you send just as you receive. This allows you to travel the world on any Internet connection, and freely send mail through our systems without change of configuration, or hassle.
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WHY? - If an ISP or E-Mail server were to open it's mail server wide to anyone to send E-Mail though it, then spammers would abuse it and in return it would get blacklisted. Blacklisting means that E-Mail server/ISP (and all of it's users) would be blocked from sending E-Mail on the Internet. This is a VERY bad thing and will put a provider out of business fast. For this reason, all E-Mail servers on the Internet are "closed" meaning unless you are trusted (on their local network, use them as an ISP connection), you are "remote" and can't send E-Mail through their E-Mail servers. The ONLY way to bypass this is if your provider allowed you to use ASMTP and authenticate yourself which in turn proves your identity. |
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