On Mon, 11 Dec 2006, Matthias Keller wrote: > > 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? > > And forcing users to use their ISP's mail server efficively defeats SPF
How so? I'm assuming a home business owner owns and uses their own domain and has the ability to set up SPF records for that domain. If you are routing your outbound mail via your ISP's MTAs, just grab your ISP's SPF record and use it for your domain. If your ISP is doing SPF checks you might need to talk to their MTA via SMTP AUTH to bypass that test. -- 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
