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Re: Blocking MX query

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Tue Sep 4 11:56:02 2012

In-Reply-To: <22236243.23098.1346769881533.JavaMail.root@benjamin.baylink.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2012 21:24:53 +0530
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists@gmail.com>
To: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

What sort of an mta do you run on your laptop that doesnt support smtp auth?

On Tuesday, September 4, 2012, Jay Ashworth wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "William Herrin" <bill@herrin.us <javascript:;>>
>
> > There are no "good" subscribers trying to send email direct to a
> > remote port 25 from behind a NAT.
>
> Users, like myself, running Linux on home computers and laptops; our local
> sendmail-equivalents will in fact attempt direct delivery to remote SMTP MX
> servers, and we generally move around enough that setting a smarthost is
> semi-impractical, at least on laptops.
>
> I'm a bad subscriber, Bill?
>
> Cheers,
> -- jra
> --
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>

-- 
Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists@gmail.com)

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