At 10:35 AM 9/24/1999 -0700, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
>Our outbound smarthost smtp server is carefully monitor, has never lost
>a single mail message, and screaming fast at getting email out. After
>all we also run commercial opt-in bulk emailing for large clients and
>we do know how to get 100's of thosands of messages out in a real fast
>way. Probably mork work has been put into our smarthost than any company
>has bothered to put into thier smtp relay.
Maybe at your place this is true, but for a lot of isps this is definitely
not true. If this type of thing were to become a general practice
(blocking you from using any smtp server other than the local isp's), I
would consider it to be a bad thing. Hell, I don't use the university's
mail servers here because they're slow. (Quite honestly, one of the
reasons we have our own mail server for our lab is that we got frustrated
with the university's mail system).
>Your work also has a serious security concern if it allows this you to
>directly attatch to it's port 25. Can you say firewall circumvention...
>I thought so.
Heh, yeah, that's a good one. Firewall? Hell, I don't even have control
over the wiring to our lab. Without running a whole bunch of new wires in
the building (and I guarantee the campus network people would have a fit
about that), I don't think I could even set up a firewall if I wanted
to. Some of us have to work within the situation dealt to us, and that
situation isn't always optimal.
Gary Schrock
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