[TriLUG] OT? - RR now blocking email from dynamic IPs...

[John Franklin]

On Monday, Jun 16, 2003, at 13:16 US/Eastern, C.Magnus Hedemark wrote:
> On Monday, June 16, 2003, at 12:58 PM, Steve Williams wrote:
>
>> RR's SMTP server (smtp-server.nc.rr.com) can not be used from outside 
>> the RR
>> network.  This is a standard security practice throughout the 
>> industry - you
>> wouldnt expect your company to relay mail from another company's 
>> network,
>> right?
>
> Yes, I would expect them to relay from outside of their network, if I 
> were able to authenticate myself to the mail server that I am a 
> bonafide user of that network.  TriLUG does this with the *@trilug.org 
> accounts.

Were I running their mail server, I'd like to see something like that 
as well.  Considering how chronically overloaded their mail servers are 
now, adding password authentication and encryption (SSL tunneling) is 
hard to justify, especially when the servers are for residential 
customers, connecting from home.  It's less load on the systems and 
more inline with the class of service to just limit it to IP blocks.

That said, it would be nice to have that option.  Another +1 for a 
trilug account.

jf
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