On Thu, Dec 14, 2000, the greycells of Christopher Vasanth expressed:
> Hi!
>
> I did not understand this. Do you mean if we have an account with
> hd1.vsnl.net.in, we should not use (for instance) bom6.vsnl.net.in? Or do
> you mean if we have a dial up account with dot/vsnl, we should not use a
> private ISP. On Dec 6, hd1.vsnl.net.in was not accepting any mail for
> relay and our mail queue became alarmingly long. On a hunch I changed the
> smart relay to bom6.vsnl.net.in and also tried giasmd01.vsnl.net.in and
> both servers happily relayed my message - and we got over a tricky
> situation.
>
> What is the complication in using an smtp relay other than the ISP that we
> dial up to?
Hello,
Using some other relays, has a direct implication on something called as UCE
(Unsolicited Commercial Email), aka SPAM.
Your intention might be wise, just to clear up your mail queues, but then an
open relay(the relay which passes on the mails other than its domain) is an
excellent target for spammers.
Essentially, in practice, all the relays should be closed to prevent spamming,
but in reality, this is not the case. Also, many servers using sendmail 8.8, or
prior face this problem.
The bottomline is that to prevent SPAM, other relays should not be used. I
suggest you lookup http://cauce.india.org for more details regards this matter.
Yor are sure to be enlighten there.
Cheers,
-amar-
--
2nd place is the first loser.
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