actually, alot of ISPs including one we resell dont allow you to even make outgoing smtp connections unless you're going to there servers, and I know that MOST if not all of the Broadband providers in the US for residential service clearly state that you are NOT to run daemons of any kind on their service.
-Drew
Drew, your point of view is frankly parochial and limited.
Email wanders all over the PLANET. Rules for what is allowed to go in or out, what servers or services can be run, and what connections (or even how many!) are allowed, are as varied as the number of ISP's on Earth. It is, bluntly speaking, ridiculous to generalize in any way, or to imply any generalization.
My ISP's allows me to do whatever the heck I please on my line as long as it's not illegal. Period, end of story. That applies to both providers in the USA and in Latin America. Why? Because I make it a point to buy services from companies who follow policies I like, and I like that one. I also run our own mailserver, because the anti-virus scanning, spam assassinating, filtering, and managing I want for my mail is all stuff I can't get reliably from a provider. It's also why I don't buy services from AOL, for example.
Does that mean anything to you? Of course not; you don't care and have no reason to care. But please don't tell the rest of us "...you are probably violating TOS anyway..." and "...most if not all providers..." Such general statements are, of their very nature, bullshit. No such general truth exists; each case is different.
P.S. Kindly trim your posts of unnecessary material.
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