[colug-432] GMail and Alpine

[Rick Hornsby]

Being a little suspicious is good. In this case to add to what others have said, the NS records for the domain point to google name servers.



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On Dec 23, 2011, at 12:50, Angelo McComis <angelo at mccomis.com> wrote:

> This is perfectly normal.
> 
> Google standardized the 1e100.net domain name across all of their servers and properties to make things simple (according to them at least)
> 
> iy-in-f108 is a hostname in the email complex... no one has ever seen how to translate what iy-in-f108 means, but if you google it you'll see that it really is a server belonging to them.
> 
> 1e100 = scientific notation for 1 googol.
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Joshua Kramer <joskra42.list at gmail.com> wrote:
> Howdy All,
> 
> Is anyone using Alpine with GMail?  I've set it up so that I can read my gmail via ssh.  However, when I went to send an e-mail, some server asks for authentciation:
> 
> iy-in-f108.1e100.net
> 
> I'm sure that Google probably uses localized SMTP servers, but I'm wary of providing my credentials to some strange server somewhere.  Has anyone else encountered this?
> 
> Thanks!
> -JK
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