[Mimedefang] Another silly idea

WBrown at e1b.org WBrown at e1b.org
Wed May 3 10:30:05 EDT 2006


mimedefang-bounces at lists.roaringpenguin.com wrote on 05/03/2006 04:08:05 
AM:

> adsl.$a.$b.$c.$d.someisp.net is not what I expect to be the email 
> server of any decent organization ... whether it's a company or a home 
> mail server (btw: I am in that latter category).  If you are an 
> end-user, then you should go through your ISP's mail server.  No if's 
> and's nor but's.  If you're a server, whether it's corporate, so-ho, or 
> home enthusiast, then set up your service and system to look like one. 
> If you don't, I don't see why I should accept email from you.  So I 
> don't.

[snip]

> I don't see how that's my problem.  For one, I do pay a slightly higher 
> fee in order to have a static IP address through an ISP that lets me 
> set my PTR record to match my forward DNS.  That's the price _I_ pay 
> for having my own mail service instead of doing email through services 
> whose processes I don't like.

Congratulations.  You have an ISP that will configure that for you.  Not 
all will for any amount of money.





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