[61363] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Fun new policy at AOL
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (McBurnett, Jim)
Thu Aug 28 11:39:38 2003
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 11:15:29 -0400
From: "McBurnett, Jim" <jmcburnett@msmgmt.com>
To: "Nipper, Arnold" <arnold@nipper.de>,
"Roland Perry" <nanog@internetpolicyagency.com>,
"Matthew Crocker" <matthew@crocker.com>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
-On Thursday, August 28, 2003 4:18 PM, Matthew Crocker =
<matthew@crocker.com>
-wrote:
->
-> Shouldn't customers that purchase IP services from an ISP use the =
ISPs
-> mail server as a smart host for outbound mail?
-
-At least here in DE there are resellers of DTAG which offer DSL =
connections
-without any SMTP relay. If you want relaying you also have to order a =
domain
-via them. More funny: you cannot deliver mails to DTAG (actually =
T-Online)
-as the resellers use address space of DTAG and hence the DTAG servers
-believe you are a customer of them and should use the internal relays =
...
-
-Arnold
I wouldn't say that the answer is to use a relay..
I have had the problem, and due to the business we are in, we sometimes =
are
forced to email proofs that can be as big at 10 Meg, zipped....
Don't think many would allow us to realy that......
J
