[61351] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Fun new policy at AOL
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron Dewell)
Thu Aug 28 10:39:56 2003
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 08:39:17 -0600 (MDT)
From: Aaron Dewell <acd@woods.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <89081955-D962-11D7-A9DD-000A956885D4@crocker.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Matthew Crocker wrote:
> Shouldn't customers that purchase IP services from an ISP use the ISPs
> mail server as a smart host for outbound mail?
Also depends on how much clue said ISP has. I have a DSL-like connection
at home from a large LEC/ISP, but half the time their mail server either
doesn't respond or rejects me. If I was more concerned, I would just set
up my own mail server here and be done with it. As it is, I use ssh/pine.
But there's another good reason for customers to use their own mail server.
Aaron
