On Sat, Nov 27, 2004 at 04:43:37PM -0800, Bob Amen wrote: > I must disagree. Unfortunately the number of responsible people on > the other end of cable and DSL modems is vanishingly small compared to > the number of zombie machines that are spewing spam and more viruses. On > a typical day we get abut 340,000 delivery attempts. We block about > 110,000 thanks to SORBS. That's per day. I have only gotten 4 or 5 false > positives due to SORBS listings in the last 6 months. (Of 340,000 > incoming messages, we pass on 7,400 to our users.) > > So would you have us accept 110,000 garbage messages per day for > less than one a month that are responsible people running their own mail > server on a cable or DSL modem? That would be a great cost to us in > either processing power to analyze the messages with SA and/or lost > productivity for all our users to wade through more junk. > > I'm sorry but you must send mail through your ISP's mail server or > be blocked by an increasing number of mail servers around the Internet. > If your ISP doesn't support using their mail server with your domain, > find another one. My home ISP does, which is one reason I chose them. > > -- > Bob Amen > O'Reilly Media, Inc. > http://www.ora.com/ > http://www.oreilly.com/
Bob is right. If you want to send mail directly to mail servers without having a static IP, switch to another ISP. Or use your ISP's mail server. We don't want users to receive thousands of spam mails just in order to allow 1 or 2 guys to send their mail directly from their machine, without using their ISP's mail server... Nicolas, Paris. -- --- OxStOnE -------------- O - Z750 & Linux ------- ._ /\_> --- Powered ---------- (x)> (x) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
