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		nupark2 on Feb 5, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why do self-respecting hackers use Gmail & Co? If you ISP provides SMTP for their e-mail (almost all do), then barring outbound From address filters, you can set up your SMTP server to treat the customer facing mail server as a smarthost. The ISP doesn't need to do anything specific to support it.

icebraining on Feb 5, 2012 [–]

I was absolutely sure they did filter, but I've just tested and apparently they don't. Well, that's unexpected. I might switch to self-hosting again then.

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