At 11:11 28/02/2001 +0100, Ben Bucksch wrote:
>Simon P. Lucy wrote:
>
>>Relaying is allowed for the correct IP addresses, so mail sent from
>>any account is fine so long as the smtp server is correct for the
>>current connection. The trick would be to capture or have the user
>>specify the subnet for each ISP and have a vestigial ISP account. At
>>the time of sending the current list of IP addresses (a machine may have
>>more than one, their local LAN IP address and any Internet routed
>>address), would be matched against the ISP subnets and the currently
>>valid SMTP server chosen accordingly.
>
>hm, good idea, that would even work for my setup :-).
Two votes, almost a quorum :-).
>If everything breaks, the user could help by manually selecting the right
>ISP account, maybe via the "offline" icon.
It could certainly respond to a failure to connect to a server by putting
up the list of servers to choose from or similar, having it run through the
list itself would be a bad idea because not all ISPs reject straightaway a
lot use a gateway which feeds their remailer and that sends mail back to
the originator rather than failing the transmission.
>>The reason I call them ISP accounts is that you can have multiple POP or
>>I guess IMAP accounts at any one ISP, or a particular account may be
>>entirely disconnected from any individual ISP. De-coupling the mailbox
>>from the ISP, since all mailboxes will use the current SMTP server,
>>simplifies the process.
>
>Note: ISPs are important for proxies, too. I had similar idea, see thread
>"ISP support".
Oh very true an even better reason for ISP accounts, the data structure
should really include all of the dialler information so it can drive the
remote connection directly for some platforms.
Simon
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