On Mon, 11 Dec 2006, John Rudd wrote: > 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?
One possible hurdle is the fact that your source domain will probably *not* be the ISP's domain, so your routing your domain email outbound via their servers would require special MTA rules on their part (except for the subcase where you're trying to send mail to another user at that ISP). Think "open relay". The ISP mailserver should only be accepting mail *from* their domain or *to* their domain. Mail from and to domains they don't own should be blocked. You might have problems getting them to permit relay by a domain you own if you don't have a business-class account (and thus a higher level of support). -- John Hardin KA7OHZ http://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] FALaholic #11174 pgpk -a [EMAIL PROTECTED] key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507 136C AF76 D822 E6E6 B873 2E79 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The fetters imposed on liberty at home have ever been forged out of the weapons provided for defense against real, pretended, or imaginary dangers from abroad. -- James Madison, 1799 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 4 days until Bill of Rights day
