>>>>> "Tarun" == Tarun Dua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Tarun> [snip]
Tarun> Personally and professionally I agree with you. Dial up
Tarun> Pools shouldn't be blocked and individuals should be able
Tarun> to use their own MTA's and not dependent on an ISP to
Tarun> provide a mail relay host to them. I meant it was bad idea
Tarun> for MTNL to allow their Mail Servers ( Most likely they
Tarun> are/should be outside the blocked Dial Up Pool) to allow
Tarun> their whole dial up pool to use them as relay with weak/no
Tarun> authentication and individuals to use them and not having
Tarun> their own SMTP connect directly to the MX of receiver and
Tarun> send mail.
Oh, actually MTNL allows both: use their mail servers as relay if
you're on their dial-up as well as SMTP directly to any host on the
'net that will have you. No connection `hijacking' there: set smart
host to mail.mtnl.net.in (or something like that) if you want,
otherwise have no smart host and mail directly to the recipient's MX.
Authentication is not an issue: IP-based authentication is enough for
a dial-up ISP to permit relaying for its customers.
Regards,
-- Raju
--
Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/
It is the mind that moves
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