From: John Rudd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Marc Perkel wrote: > > I'm someone who works from home and > > provides so service from home. So I would not want to be > prohibited from > > running an email server from home. But if I had to got to a web panel > > that my ISP provided to open up ports that would be fine with me. > > I'm curious.. as someone who ALSO runs a home mail server... > > What's wrong with evolving best practices to require that our outgoing > email be channeled through our ISP's mail server, instead of having our > customer-assigned IP addresses directly connect to other people's mail > servers?
That your e-mail service will be at most as best as your provider's one is. That is, if your provider is sometime loosing outgoing mail or it accepts messages not greater than 2 MB, you have to stick with it if you use their (great?) service. Also, if you like to break some of the limits they impose, you may have to pay something to them. Ie: do you want a 30MB mailsize limit? Ok, pay 50,00 / year / domain. Now, of course one can use its ISP's mail servers to forward mail, but this is going to have an impact mostly on the small companies which can't afford the costs to enter the market. Big companies can easily buy /26 IP address chunks and run their own rDNS zones. Small companies are forced to shrink they already small incomes thanks to the kind of policies you suggest. Please note that the 'evolving best practices' that you invoke are set by large ISPs, not by the voiceless small ones... Now, I know that this could sound weird to most of you, but I definitely would prefer to receive some more spam whether the alternative would be to have to deal with my ISP about every and each service I would like to run on my own server. ----------------------------------- Giampaolo Tomassoni - IT Consultant Piazza VIII Aprile 1948, 4 I-53044 Chiusi (SI) - Italy Ph: +39-0578-21100 MAI inviare una e-mail a: NEVER send an e-mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > That doesn't prohibit either of us from running an email server at home. > >
