IMail Admin wrote:
Aside from the fact that it would seem you are condemning your own
Imail installation, there is a more practical problem here: there are
a large number of mail servers (Imail, possibly some others) that
report different domain names during the HELO for the same IP. It is
simply not practical to expect all of these people to upgrade, no
matter how desirable it might be. So even if we all agreed with
Comcast in philosophy, there implementation is arrogant and
short-sighted.
Why would it be so hard for them to use this as a weighted test? That
way, a properly configured Imail serve would fail this one test but
not be blacklisted. A spammer would also fail other tests, and would
get blacklisted.
Look at it from their side. We (Comcast) block this from going on and
maybe 25,000 e-mails a day are lost... But we also stop 50,000,000 junk
mail messages from coming through from junk mailers that display very
similar traits to what IMail does.
What would you do? Sure it seems pointy headed but they are dealing
with really really big numbers and the IMail installed base looks like a
rounding error to them. Think of it this way, one hour of incoming
e-mail from Hotmail exceeds a week of incoming e-mail from IMail servers.
This is why I'm a firm believer that small systems should just outsource
their e-mail. It'd be cheaper than paying for maintenance on IMail and
all the Rolaids people like Comcast cause to be consumed. Just wait
until Crazy Ed over at at&t wants you to to pay protection money just to
almost guarantee delivery of e-mail from your system to their system.
-Ron
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