Just one note of clarification here... Your arguments are primarily directed at those running servers on their residential lines. However a number of the folks who have responded are on business connections (to the Internet - to avoid any confusion.. :).
If one were running a server on a residential service where personal servers are not expected (though they are tolerated to some degree), then yes, you need to jump through the hoops to make this work. However, those of us who pay for business service - where running our own servers are the norm - then being forced to use a smarthost via Shaw's mail server, or jump through such hoops should not be tolerated. Afterall, we have paid for the right to run our own servers and take responsibility for them. This is a little off topic as the general mail server discussion is still applicable (and I'm learning a few things), but my point still stands. Shawn Kevin Anderson wrote: > Reliability is a different issue than being asked to use a server. One > that should be complained about if it isn't stellar. Having said that, > this does not affect Business Class services, so if you're running your > own Mail, NNTP, HTTP, DNS, etc, perhaps you aren't really choosing > what's best for yourself anyway. > > If you care about TLS, and encryption, you likely aren't affected, > because you won't be using port 25 anyway. You'll be using secure SMTP, > or connecting via VPN, or whatever else. _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
