At 10:24 6/16/2004, lac wrote: >Of course 1. and 2. are not feasible for about 99% of broadband users who >want to run a legitimate mail server. Static address and RDNS is out of the >question (an ISP usually charges a busisness rate for this)
I think your percentage is a little high (I find the actual answer to be closer to about 40%, rather than 99%, although it is sometimes necessary to talk to the smaller, local providers or resellers rather than dealing with "the big boys"), although I'm sure it varies based on geographic location. Being in the US, most of my experience is with US providers. And I've found (by dealing with a number of them) that if you manage to get past the front line sales people and talk to someone who actually has a clue what the terms "static IP" and "custom RDNS" mean, that it can be set up without a significant additional cost (perhaps a one time cost, or a small monthly fee for the address, if you go with a static IP). For example, my current provider charges me $2 per month per static IP address, and charged me a $50 one time charge to establish DNS mirroring (I run my own DNS servers for my "vanity domains", and they provide backup DNS services). Perhaps not the cheapest possible solution, but it isn't like doubling or tripling the monthly cost of the connectivity, either.... Of course, there are those who would put forward the argument that if you can't distinguish yourself from all the other hosts out there, then you shouldn't be talking direct-to-MX. I'm not sure I agree with that (yet), but the evidence to support that point of view is growing every day. It *is* hard to distinguish "legitimate" mail servers running on dynamic addresses from the hordes of zombie virus spewing machines. Hence those people who "do it right" (albeit without the legitimacy of a static IP and/or custom RDNS) get lost in the noise... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
