>This may be a really daft question, but why would you want to force your
>users to use your SMTP server as apossed to their ISP's,. Is it not better
>to have the ISP carry the extra work load than yourselves?
One pb with some of the access providers that block port 25 is that
they also force the sender to use the access provider's envelope:
MAIL FROM: sender@accessprovider
rather than your own [EMAIL PROTECTED], because they know that
can be abused.
But apart from that, the "convenience" to users, worldwide, of being
able to relay through one/your Imail has to offset against all
their/your aggro of discovering that some access provider du jour
blocks port 25. Plus, for IMGate users, they have to open up their
Imail to Internet for SMTP AUTH rather than blocking Internet access
to Imail's port 25.
Len
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