[51978] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How do you stop outgoing spam?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brad Knowles)
Wed Sep 11 11:55:54 2002
In-Reply-To: <5.1.1.2.2.20020910100348.03b81008@jay.songbird.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 14:07:35 +0200
To: Dave Crocker <dhc2@dcrocker.net>
From: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
Cc: Paul Vixie <vixie@vix.com>, nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
At 10:16 AM -0700 2002/09/10, Dave Crocker wrote:
> Laptop mobile users cannot use their home SMTP server.
Depends on the configuration of the SMTP server and the mail
server & client running on the laptop. With SMTPAUTH and/or TLSSMTP,
and using a different (unfiltered) port, this shouldn't be a problem.
> In other words, by blocking output SMTP, mobile users
> are hurt badly.
Can be. Yup. Think of all the iPass and GRiC customers who
don't even know who the local provider is that they're dialing up, so
that they can get a network connection?
> I know that *I* certainly am. Constantly and
> serously.
I'm very sorry to hear this. Maybe we can help you get SMTPAUTH
and/or TLSSMTP set up on your server and/or client?
--
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
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