>Sure. It's a false economy. What if the mail doesn't go through?
>What if the destination host blocks mail from dialups? I wouldn't
>even begin to consider sending mail directly from any national
>provider of dialup service (which is what I presume you're using,
>since you indicate that you're not making a long-distance call).
One thing that hasn't been considered - what if you're dialing up through
a responsible ISP who doesn't let their users send mail directly out, by
blocking outbound SMTP connections from dialups?
We did this about 3 months ago after some recurrent and vicious spammers.
Since then, we've had exactly 2 complaints about the procedure, both of
which were resolved after we informed the customer that we did this as an
anti-spam measure.
I had my reservations about this policy at first, but given the problems
it's solved so far, I must say it's been a good move. It forces spammers
to go directly through our mail server, where we can keep an eye out for
behavior that looks like spam.
shag
