Julian Mehnle wrote:I don't see the problem. http://spf.pobox.com/objections.html#forwarding handles it, I think.
But it's just wrong.
If I am connected to my Earthlink DSL at home and want to send mail using my pobox.com account in their example...
- Earthlink will block port 25 to any other SMTP server but theirs
- therefore there's no voodoo that pobox.com can do that will allow
a normally-configured mail client to send using my pobox.com
address
Yes, they can. SMTP's twin sister, the mail submission protocol, uses port 587, which will be unaffected by Earthlink's stupid firewall.
It's unacceptable to me -- and to millions of others.
If your mail client cannot be reconfigured to use SMTP to port 587, instead of port 25, then have someone fix it, so that it can.
I think that the spam problem has gotten big enough to force a swift kick in the ass, to everyone.
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