Josh, I think you're pursuing a different argument, which has its own merits but isn't exactly my point. Think about Ron's situation (or Hotmail's, as Scott originally noted). It's not about SMTP AUTH at all. It's about one user, and a single e-mail, getting you blacklisted. So every free, sign-yourself-up service is instantly and endlessly blacklistable--never mind that they might have detailed logs of each connecting IP. I mean, DSBL might have a lot of good catches, but if they have these giant bad catches, everyone's either gonna have to weight them pretty low or have an extensive whitelist. And anyone can just block outgoing mail to DSBL--which is so easy that the whole thing falls apart right there.
Sandy P.S. On one of your points... > Even in a corporate environment.... actually... especially in a corporate > environment you should not have SMTP servers accept mail from any client on > your network without authentication. How hard is it to run with SMTP Auth > enabled? I'd rather do that then see [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] > get an email from [EMAIL PROTECTED] cursing them out. SMTP AUTH would have no bearing on this, as there is no relaying involved; the security level you describe is not possible with Imail. And I for one would love for some executives to get cursed out, but that's just me. :))) 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 the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
