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SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) is the protocol, or language, that computers use to send outgoing email. POP3 protocol is the language computers use for receiving or incoming email. Spammers take advantage of the SMTP protocol by bouncing or relaying email off of an email server and sending it out to email addresses as unsolicited email. In order to keep
SPAMMERS from sending out their burdensome and sometimes annoying email solicitations to hundreds if not thousands of random email
accounts anyone sending out email from any account on a HunTel.net mail server must be authenticated with both a username AND a password.
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Our servers are configured so that
if any combination of the username or password are incorrect or are not supplied at all, the email will not
be sent. This is a way to prevent relaying of unwanted, unneeded emails off of legitimate email servers. It sounds like a hassle to the end user, but all that needs to be done is check a box or two via the instructions on these pages for whatever email program you are using
-- and that's it. You will not notice that you are receiving any less SPAM, but we are doing our part to help keep the internet free
of such burdensome traffic.
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