On 4/25/06 9:11 PM, "Maurice E Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
OK,To be realistic...not ALL of them drop your stuff on the floor. And I’m not personally so sure that it’s all that intellegent to decide that people with “residential” or “dynamic” ips are automatically morons who can’t control their perimeter and so should be blocked. I find, in fact, that most of my mail (that doesn’t need to go to aol, or certain other large providers) does in fact travel quite happily from my properly configured, non-spam friendly mail server to the destination. And if it bounces, well, that’s what the “transport” file is for :). And what he’s seeing is, in fact, NOT a smackdown because the receiving end doesn’t like his dynamic ip. If you look at the log segment, he’s not getting connected at the far end, not getting a 550. His isp is blocking outbound smtp traffic. You could make an argument both ways, but I personally find it appalling that morons who can’t control their own computing resources make it difficult for me to send my legitimate outbound mail as I please. I’m not a big fan of “lowest common denominator” computing...which is why I don’t run windows.
Here's how this works.
Many (nearly all) primary SMTP servers on the Internet will not forward your email. The reason for this is because your ip belongs to an ISP (this means your IP is a client IP on the ISPs net).
Well, one day, many moons ago a bunch of very intelligent folks got together and figured that letting people run their own mailservers was a goot way to propagate spam. So they put together a database of (among other things) ISP-Customer IPs.
This is where it gets good. You see, now that you are part of the crowd, ALL of those SMTP servers on the net will see your server as an email source and drop your stuff on the floor. Pretty cool huh?
Remember kiddies - RTFM
