Originally posted by max@Nov 12 2005, 09:22 PM
yeah, i mean thats obvious. You need to be a customer with a valid address @touchtel. Why would the smtp server relay your message from the touchtel domain if it doesnt know you in the first place?!
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;-) but i am an airtel-bb customer now! made the @touchtelindia.net address, but even if one sends mail after logging in at pop3.touchtelindia.net, it disallows the email client to set the 'reply-to' flag.
what does this signify? to me, many things.
the first emerges from the question, "why the need to set a value in the reply-to field other than my username@touchtelindia.net?" it's answer is simple: we've been around longer than airtel-bb, and, in most cases, our email addresses too. dumping these addresses is impractical, and even more so, when all that one is doing, is shifting from one (access) service to another. it's important, this point about access, the shift (minor that it is) being similar to taking one bus route and not another --- the aim in both procedures/methods remains the same i.e. doing and getting done what one has to do, on the internet.
second, this points to the possibility that airtel might soon fall for the lazy option of assuing a one-size-fits-all formula for internet. their people who came here/home testified to the massive expansion of their customer base, solely due to the home699/999 plans. a newspaper yesterday wrote about airtel offering to wire up hundreds of sarkari buildings in central delhi. all of these are indications, that in the deluge of new connections and installations, their CC people are dumbing themselves down, and their marketing monkeys are smelling another set of opportunities to gouge the more experienced users.
#3: "gouge"? asking about reply-to (how miniscule an issue this should be in a user's experience!), i was told by a supervisor "you need to register your email address(es) with or.s@touchtelindia.net AND THEN PAY rs. 1199 per year, to enable this 'feature'."
mmm mmm "whaddafuh?" is all i can exclaim! rs. 1199 for what? something that every ISP/service i've been on till now (ernet, vsnl student accounts, vsnl, satyam, now-india, hathway, hotwire, and the countless of communally distributed/shared usernames and passwords we've all found/script-kiddied/swapped/utilized, back in the days of BO) has just had?
the big bad rakshasa of spam is a pathetic excuse, especially when 1199*2=2398 (my, and my family's long time email addresses).
if anyone else is facing this issue, and is unsure of how to get around it, here's a possible solution: run your own smtp server, as and when you need it. heck, if all the mass mailing worms and virii of the last few years propagated themselves by catapulting themselves via outlook/WAB with mini smtp engines, there's no need to rely on
microsoft (but is there ever?) and IIS. this seems to be a good option:
http://www.qksoft.com/ .
