[Sussex] Migration, I might have got things right but ???

[Mark Harrison (Groups)]

Simon Huggins wrote:

>And you sent the mail through their servers to the lug list server so
>unless they allow relaying to anyone (which is highly unlikely) you have
>indeed changed.
>  
>
Yes and no.

Open relaying is, indeed, pretty much a thing of the past (except for 
Windows users who leave it on by mistake :-) )

Increasingly however, ISPs allow relaying if you use SMTP authentication 
against their servers. So in addition to reading your POP3/IMAP account 
from their servers while "on the road" you can send mail through their 
servers even if you happen to be GPRSed in rather than at home on your 
own broadband.

It would be possible, albeit unlikely, to have succesfully changed email 
configuration to point to Eclipse, while leaving connectivity through a 
legacy provider.

Personally, I'd use a two-phase approach similar to what Jon suggested:

1: www.whatismyip.com

2: Rather than emailing Jon, I'd just go to www.demon.net , select 
"network tools" / "internet query tools" or whatever they're calling it 
this week, from wherever it currently is on the left hand menu of their 
home page, type in the IP address you got in "1", and look who it's 
registered to.

In my case, I get: "Your IP is 81.5.163.57" at stage 1, and

    inetnum:              81.5.163.56 - 81.5.163.63
    netname:              UK-ECLIPSE-58ZZXSKTS0VI3FWV
    descr:                Eclipse ADSL Customer

... for stage 2, which prety much clinches it.

Regards,

Mark