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It used to be that the world was nice and generally you could send through any ISP's SMTP mail server (Simple Mail Transport Protocol) from wherever you lived. Ah, the Halcyon days of yore, and etc.
Now, however, thanks to spammers, it's a naive ISP that lets you send through their SMTP gateway unless you're logged on to their network explicitly. This is entirely controlled by the server; there's nothing you can do about it as a client because, if you could, you could send from your own domain (imaspammer.com, say) through another ISP's mail gateway. And if you did it to me (not that you would <g>), I would beat up my ISP mercelessly until they made you quit it. Which, as a matter of fact, I did, and they quit it. So now I can't send mail from a foreign ISP (which I wish I could, not being a spammer, but so it goes).
Did any of this make sense?
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