Good point - lots of ways around that though, and I think in many cases the reason they did that was to prevent spammers from using their netowrk to broadcast - right? If a mechanism like this is adopted as a spam killer, then their capture of all port 25 traffic is not required...
Personally I've always tunnelled to my home server for mail anyways - regardless of these traps - othewise I don't get my bounces... But good point regardless -----Original Message----- From: Roger B.A. Klorese [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 5:21 PM To: Mitch (WebCob) Cc: 'Courier Users' Subject: Re: [courier-users] Re: freemail list and questions about yahoo... Mitch (WebCob) wrote: > Personally I don't see that as a bad thing - it makes it a lot > simpler to keep tabs on the spam problem, and since authenticated > SMTP and open source webmail systems are so common, I would question > why ANYONE would send mail from a foreign domain through a > "convenient" SMTP server. Becauase many ISPs will only allow you to access port 25 of THEIR server; if you're roaming onto their network, you must use their server, not some external one you can authenticate to. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become an expert in LINUX or just sharpen your skills. Sign up for IBM's Free Linux Tutorials. Learn everything from the bash shell to sys admin. Click now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1278&alloc_id=3371&op=click _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
