Dan, I appreciate you responding but have a few points to make... 1) If I want to allow somebody to use my smtp-authenticated services and have taken the precautions against being an open relay, who cares what the ISP wants? We are here to provide a service to our clients and quite honestly, many ISPs are quite satisifed with the lousy service they provide their customers. Again, if I choose to allow authenticated mail relay, that should be up to me. If however I have an OPEN relay, then yes, the ISP has the right (and should) blackhole my server . oh yea, add MAPS support to the wishlist too :) 2) The major SMTP clients can be configured to use nonstandard ports for outgoing (smtp) mail. So this is not an issue. 3) "...for a product that follows RFC's..."? Come on! Where in the RFC's does it say one should limit the number of recips to a single domain to 5, disconnect,reconnect,send 5 more, and start the cycle over? You guys did this (we can't turn it on or off) because of the policies at AOL. 4) Web messaging is not a viable solution to the problems ISPs are causing by blocking port 25 traffic. People don't like changes and/or workarounds that interferes with their ability to do their job. If a guys notebook is configured to use imap, then it should work all the time. Lots of folks use the same notebook in the office and out. Switching between a 'real' mail client and web messaging is a burdon that most folks don't want to worry about. -----Original Message----- From: Daniel Donnelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Friday, February 23, 2001 2:10 PM Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] One for the 'wish list' - SMTP listen port >Hmmm..... Bet the ISPs out there (GTE, Mindspring, Earthlink, etc...) would >really love Ipswitch for that one! They take control (spam reasons typically >given) and Ipswitch gives it back?? > >I suppose since one could use any unused port, it would make it less likely >that a spammer would find the one you are using for SMTP and your clients >would have to know (you tell them, ) and set their software to use it >(assuming that can be done, Len, I've not seen any settings in the clients >I've used), would sort of reduce the risks, but still use of the ISPs >bandwidth now on a nonstandard port...... Probably not a good idea for a >product that follows RFCs. Now, I'm not stating any company policies, only >expressing my personal point of view and maybe a reason for not doing this. > >True, it would be cool if one could! Now your IMail users could access from >anywhere and send using your domain names. But they can pretty much do that >using Web MSG, too (whoops, did I find another reason not to make the >change?). > >Interesting idea....keep talking. > >Daniel Donnelly >________________________________________________________ > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "David Gregg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "IMail Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Friday, February 23, 2001 12:20 PM >Subject: [IMail Forum] One for the 'wish list' > > >> It would sure be nice if one could configure IMail to 'listen' on multiple >> ports and 'send' on only one port. >> >> Obviously, we would want the normal listen/send on port 25 but since many >> dialup providers are blocking port 25 traffic, preventing folks from >sending >> through our servers, I think it would be great to also listen on another >> port (26, 1025, etc...) >> >> >> >> Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html >> to be removed from this list. >> >> An Archive of this list is available at: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ >> > > >Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html >to be removed from this list. > >An Archive of this list is available at: >http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
