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Re: Selection of Appropriate Local SMTP Relay
From: jlewis () lewis org
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 21:59:34 -0500 (EST)
On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Forrest W. Christian wrote:
I'm not saying I have the right answer, just that whatever the answer is should support at least a majority of the current base.I think must of us agree that the the truly right answer (at least for SMTP Relay) is to implement SMTP auth on a global scale.
That's a nice idea...but we can't even get all the open relay's closed. How many years do you think it'll take to fundamentally change how the SMTP protocol works across the entire internet? I'm more in favor of the idea of using an SMTP server local to the network you're dialing into and blocking or transparently redirecting SMTP traffic to remote networks. I realize this makes it difficult or impossible to impose your restrictions on what your customers can do with SMTP if they dial into outsourced ports, but IMO this would stop the abuse of open relays much sooner than SMTP auth can. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Jon Lewis *jlewis () lewis org*| Spammers will be winnuked or System Administrator | nestea'd...whatever it takes Atlantic Net | to get the job done. _________http://www.lewis.org/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key__________
Current thread:
- Re: Selection of Appropriate Local SMTP Relay, (continued)
- Re: Selection of Appropriate Local SMTP Relay Patrick Greenwell (Jan 10)
- Re: Selection of Appropriate Local SMTP Relay Forrest W. Christian (Jan 10)
- Re: Selection of Appropriate Local SMTP Relay bmanning (Jan 10)
- Re: Selection of Appropriate Local SMTP Relay Forrest W. Christian (Jan 10)
- Re: Selection of Appropriate Local SMTP Relay Joe Abley (Jan 11)
- Re: Selection of Appropriate Local SMTP Relay Brandon Ross (Jan 10)
- Re: Selection of Appropriate Local SMTP Relay Forrest W. Christian (Jan 11)
- Re: Selection of Appropriate Local SMTP Relay Brandon Ross (Jan 11)
- Re: Selection of Appropriate Local SMTP Relay Forrest W. Christian (Jan 11)
- Re: Selection of Appropriate Local SMTP Relay Steve Sobol (Jan 11)
- Re: Selection of Appropriate Local SMTP Relay jlewis (Jan 11)
- Re: Selection of Appropriate Local SMTP Relay Alex P. Rudnev (Jan 11)
- Re: Selection of Appropriate Local SMTP Relay Michael Shields (Jan 11)
- Re: Selection of Appropriate Local SMTP Relay jlewis (Jan 11)
- Re: Selection of Appropriate Local SMTP Relay Jeff Mcadams (Jan 12)
- Re: Selection of Appropriate Local SMTP Relay Adrian Chadd (Jan 13)