IP: New Verizon SMTP email policy

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 02:24:42 -0700
> From: Brad Templeton <brad () templetons com>
> To: farber () cis upenn edu
> Cc: pakman () myplay com
>
> Worse, some ISPs are not just insisting you email out using their domain,
> they block all port 25 to the outside world so you can't use any SMTP
> server but theirs.   The 2nd is not an unreasonable anti-spam step, but
> not when combined with the first.
>
> The likely answer to come up, though not for free, will be sites setting
> up tunels so you can reach out (over HTTP) to send mail via their SMTP
> server.   They would give you a proxy that let your own machine be the
> SMTP server for your mailer, and it would tunnel that over HTTP to another
> SMTP server they ran which authenticted you.  Not that hard to code.
>
> But not likely to be done for free, either.
>
>
> I've always told people never to use their ISP as their email address.
> Get another address or your own domain, and forward it to your ISP box
> if you want, but never use the ISP -- or company or institution -- because
> you lose it if you switch ISPs or switch jobs.
>
> That's after all the whole dumb network concept -- you should be able
> to buy your address from one company, your incomign mailbox server from
> another and your outgoing from a third if you want it.  While there need
> to be some restrictions on this to stop spam, thee is no need for them
> to be as strong as this.



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