At 7:46 PM -0400 2003/08/30, Richard Rognlie wrote:
Right, but if lots of people use RMX-type solutions, then my ISPs mail server is almost certainly not going to be on the list of "approved" sending mail relays for most of those domains. So, I have to use different mail relays, one for each domain that I send e-mail from. Moreover, each of those has to be configured with SMTPAUTH, TLSSMTP, POP-before-SMTP, or whatever.My measure has nothing to do with email addresses. Only the HELO/EHLO argument. I'm asking that if you are not going to conform to the standards of the net, please relay your mail through a host that does and does not mind you not doing so (use your local ISP's mail server as a smart host)
I've been a bit of a sendmail snob since ~'91-'92, when I was forced to learn it based on the only published material available at the time, which was a single chapter in Craig Hunt's book _TCP/IP Network Administration_. I've been a fan of postfix since early '98, back when Wietse was still calling it VMailer.How many people have the knowledge and skills necessary to do this sort of thing?True. I'm a bit of a sendmail snob, but that's mostly because I can beat it into submission (regardless of what that stupidity I need to make it do... can you say "99 bottles of beer" in .cf? I can... 8^)
Lots of spammers don't bother trying to send directly to the primary MX. They automatically assume that many sites will do what you have done, where you protect the primary MX more than you do any of your others, and will automatically contact them first.So, the mail fails over to my backup MS host... And I'm seeing a LOT more mail coming from him that I used to.