Hi Kyle, (Please don't top post, guys, it makes replying with history very hard. I had to manually reformat this message to do it).
On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 16:45 +0300, Mike Barnard wrote: > > > Kyle, what are you using for your smtp? is should be smtp.orange.ug On Monday 08 February 2010 16:53:54 Kyle Spencer wrote: > > My organizations IMAP/SMTP servers. What else? :) On Mon, 8 Feb 2010, Reinier Battenberg wrote: > Forwarding all your SMTP traffic into the Orange server is not > necessarily a bad idea. You wont be using your international bandwidth > to deliver your mail that way. > > You might get into trouble if Orange would ever be blacklisted though. > Which, being a public ISP using unauthenticated SMTP, is not, Murphy's > Law, impossible. Any decent ISP will implement outbound SMTP port blocking and force their customers to use the ISP's mail gateway with some policy filtering. Imagine how many 3G and ADSL users right now are sitting on infected laptops and desktops pumping out spam. The ISP's gateway (a) makes it much more difficult for these worms to send spam, as they have to find out the gateway address somehow, and maybe authenticate to it; and (b) allows the ISP to implement outbound spam filtering. I not only refuse to accept email sent directly from dynamic IPs of all kinds when I can identify them (e.g. using zen.spamhaus.org), I blacklist entire ISPs that obviously don't take enough care with spam filtering. I'm sure others do the same. Orange France does not block outbound SMTP as far as I know, and they are one of the worst sources of spam to me, so they have been blacklisted from my mail server for about two years. Cheers, Chris. -- Aptivate | http://www.aptivate.org | Phone: +44 1223 760887 The Humanitarian Centre, Fenner's, Gresham Road, Cambridge CB1 2ES Aptivate is a not-for-profit company registered in England and Wales with company number 04980791. _______________________________________________ LUG mailing list [email protected] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ---------------------------------------
