Matt Kettler wrote:
Jo Rhett wrote:
The autodetection is totally broken actually, and needs to be fixed.
How do you propose it be fixed?
This has been brought up a few dozen times, and really it boils down to
breaking people with NATed MX servers (as it is now), or breaking people
without NATed MX servers but with NATed internal mailservers. You can't
have both work.
Uh, no. Forget about people with NAT. Who cares? It doesn't work in
straight up normal external IP mode with no NAT at all. Period.
The autodetection is broken, but it is fundamentally unfixable. You
cannot fix it, you can only change between two different kinds of broken.
You're still babbling about NAT. I could care less about NAT. All
trusted breaks for EVERYONE, and EVERYONE ends up hardcoding
trusted_networks because auto detection is completely and utterly broken.
The fundamental problem is if you work backwards in time through the
...
you'll under-trust for those with non-NAT MXes.
Nobody but you is talking about NAT. Nobody cares about NAT. The
feature itself is broken in non-NAT form.
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Jo Rhett
Network/Software Engineer
Net Consonance
