Sorry, that doesn't make a lot of sense to me... If someone, as in your example, is connected to AOL and is sending a message to an MSN address, then at that specific point in time, they are not your customer, they are an AOL customer and as such should be using AOL's smtp servers, definatly not yours.
In your post, you claim that would be eating up your bandwidth in both directions, as the message came in from AOL and then as it left going to MSN. If you are allowing people connected to AOL to send email to MSN via your smtp server, then you are an open relay. I can't believe that's what you are actually stating, so I must be misunderstanding your post, sorry. In any case, I had originally explained how I prevent my customers that are connected to my dialup ports, and that therefore receive dynamic IPs, from sending outbound traffic destined to port 25, thereby forcing them to use my smtp servers. I do not see how my blocking of locally connected customers to external port 25 connections relates to your example of someone connected to AOL and sending email to MSN. -Alan > >I guess you are in the case where clients send mail from inside your network >to the outside. >So going through your smtp server costs you no extra bandwith anyway. >But when they send mail from outside to outside ( for example my client has >an internet access with AOL and sends a mail to MSN), >I have no reason to get their mails relayed by my SMTP server, costing me >bandwith in both sides ( incoming and resend ) + server utilization > >I think that some of us manage mail mostly for their own organization, while >others act as small ISP, both situations are very different > >Benoit > >This is the discussion list for the IMS Free email server software. > To unsubscribe send mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Delivered by Rockliffe MailSite > http://www.rockliffe.com/mailsite > Rock Solid Software (tm) This is the discussion list for the IMS Free email server software. To unsubscribe send mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered by Rockliffe MailSite http://www.rockliffe.com/mailsite Rock Solid Software (tm)
