> --__--__-- > > > While I'm not the one originally asked, there are ISPs out there that > > while they ban mailservers in general, have no problems with you running > > and internal outbound server so long as it's not publically accessable. > > Meaning basically that you can't setup a server to accept mail from the > > outside, but that a server for internal users to send mail outward is > > perfectly fine. > > Maybe but like it or not there are a lot of sites that will reject mail from > dialup mail servers. A large percentage of this type of mail is spam. Most > of my current crop of spam is from addresses that clain to be @yahoo.com, > @hotmail.com, @msn.com, etc. but looking at the headers you can see that they > came from dialup accts and never once touched the mail servers of the actual > domain they claim to be from. I just got done configuring postfix to reject > mail that claims to be from the above domains but does not come from their > servers. I think this is a better way of rejecting spam without just dumping > mail from dialups. Unfortunately not everyone agrees with me. > > It will be interesting to see how well this works. Well, I haven't run into any problems as of late with anybody blocking anything to my server except for one ISP that when their DNS server takes dump, it blocks everything. -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
