[ale] If you're on Bellsouth DSL, I recommend changing providers.

[Matthew Brown]

No, no.  Not a good thing at all.  It doesn't matter if I have a 
sendmail server at home or not.  Blocking Port 25 prevents me from 
sending email from my MUA through my SMTP server located out there 
elsewhere on the Net.  So, if you're a user who needs to take their 
laptop from their home to client sites around town -- as I do -- you 
have to have two different identities/accounts and remember to use them 
when applicable.  It's just more pain in the neck from where I'm 
standing.  Also, it should be an easy thing for them to track spam 
traffic across their network, aespecially on DSL accounts, then 
implement an easy way to block the troublemakers.  It's just not _that_ 
hard to follow the heavy traffickers to warrant what they've done.  imho

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Matthew Brown
CorData

James P. Kinney III wrote:

>I guess it just doesn't sink in that the block port 25 is a good thing.
>Everyone who is affected by this is on a home user DSL account which has
>fine print that prohibits running _any_ servers at all.
>
>This is a good thing. 
>
>Most (99+%) of computer users are not competent enough to set up the
>basic machine properly, much less properly administer a server in an
>ever more hostile environment.
>
>Besides, all that one must do is setup the correct "SmartHost" flag in
>sendmail and email should flow properly from the local server to the
>bellsouth mail server where it is allowed to pass outside Bellsouth IP
>space.
>
>To _really_ do it right, networking needs to be established prior to
>sendmail startup. Now the IP address can be mapped against the Bellsouth
>provided client name. That name gets script entered into sendmail.cf as
>the mail server name and get entered into the hosts file for local use.
>Now when BS smtp servers receive email to route, it is coming from a BS
>IP address that is properly identified as a BS namespace machine in the
>server headers.
>
>It is also possible to use pop3 account access authentication before
>sending mail with sendmail as well. This will further authenticate the
>machine has being allowed to send mail.
>
>But I _do_ recommend switching to Speakeasy or Speedfactory anyway if
>the desire is to run one's own server farm.
>  
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