[68570] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian Bruns)
Sun Mar 14 17:19:54 2004
From: "Brian Bruns" <bruns@2mbit.com>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 17:19:07 -0500
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On Sunday, March 14, 2004 4:58 PM [EST], Janet Sullivan <ciscogeek@bgp4.net>
wrote:
>
> My cable modem provider filters port 25, so I can't run my own SMTP
> server. Their mail servers suck. Yes, I could pay for a business class
> cable modem connection and they'd unblock the port... but I'd likely
> still be filtered.
>
> Guess who is having a dedicated 1U set up right now? ;-)
>
> I think Paul is right, there is a small niche market for this.
Hm, are there companies out there that offer outbound SMTP services (for
people who are blocked, or which need a mail server thats not blacklisted
because their provider isn't dealing with spam problems)? I never really
looked into too much, but I haven't seen it offered on provider's sites
outright.
I was considering setting up a service like this (we have 2-3 outbound mail
relay servers that are sitting idle because we don't need them yet), but
wasn't sure how interested people would be. Like, say, setup a service that
offers people the ability to send outbound mail through based on IP ACLs,
possibly SMTP AUTH, TLS/SSL certs, and other things which could authenticate
the sender, and have it accept SMTP on various other non-25 ports.
--
Brian Bruns
The Summit Open Source Development Group
Open Solutions For A Closed World / Anti-Spam Resources
http://www.sosdg.org
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http://www.ahbl.org
