[TriLUG] Re: Port 25 blocked

[Dave Sorenson]

As long as the traffic was coming from a BS IP address it didn't seem to
care in my experience. I just set up sendmail to smart host outbound SMTP
through BS and it was happy. I would guess it authenticated me through the
network log-in and didn't care beyond that point.

DS 

-----Original Message-----
From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On Behalf
Of David Rasch
Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2004 1:27 PM
To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Re: Port 25 blocked

On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 01:17:12PM -0400, Stephen Hoffman
<srhoffman at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> I agree...to a point...if you can't send email out port 25...then is 
> there really a worry about you becoming an open relay...I say open 
> inbound 25 and keep outgoing closed.  This way should someone make a 
> mistake and be open to the world, BS will catch it because you can 
> only smart relay through them, you'll be pushing thousands of emails 
> through THEIR server a day...
> 
> Then punish the HELL out of that fool!
> 
> My $.02

the problem I had with this plan is that their server only allowed relaying
of messages from @bellsouth.net addresses (and their associated
subsidiaries).

David