[61525] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Fun new policy at AOL
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Crocker)
Fri Aug 29 16:21:38 2003
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 16:15:47 -0400
Cc: "'Mikael Abrahamsson'" <swmike@swm.pp.se>, <nanog@merit.edu>
To: "Vivien M." <vivienm@dyndns.org>
From: Matthew Crocker <matthew@crocker.com>
In-Reply-To: <042001c36e68$c9947630$0316a8c0@bigp4>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
>
> You seem to be misunderstanding the issue. Let's say you work at
> someplace.edu. You want to send mail from home. With the SPF-type
> schemes
> being discussed, your mail MUST come from someplace.edu's server.
>
> If someplace.edu won't set up an SMTP AUTH relay, what do you do? Your
> dialup account will let you use the dialup ISP's mail server... But
> your
> mail will get bounced because it's not something from someplace.edu.
>
> Hence, if no SMTP AUTH relay, you're screwed.
>
Port forward 127.0.0.1:25 through to someplace.edu:25 using SSH. Or
VPN. Or ...
More than one way to skin this cat.
-matt
