Hello R., Wednesday, June 11, 2003, 9:09:34 AM, you wrote:
>>FWIW I believe that ISP are going to put a stop to companies trying to >>run business class internet service with a 'residential' account. RSP> ARGH!!! Please listen to what is being said. :) RSP> This whole topic started because of AOL blocking E-mail that it thinks is RSP> coming from residential accounts. The rest of the thread is discussing RSP> BUSINESS ACCOUNTS, which some people are unintentionally blocking. RSP> I do not see a big problem with people blocking E-mail that is sent to RSP> their mailservers from residential accounts (although that may block RSP> occasional personal E-mail and E-mail from some organizations). Blocking RSP> E-mail from perfectly valid business accounts (just because they use an RSP> Internet provider that also provides residential service, and doesn't allow RSP> vanity reverse DNS entries), however, isn't a smart move. Well, there's a bunch of stupid ISPs out there. We have RoadRunner Biz class at our store. I believe we have 6 IPs excluding the gateway IP. A year or so ago, RR threw them in the dial-up pool and we never could get it straightened out. On the other hand, there are a couple of major ISPs who won't accept traffic from RR's OWN smtp servers. But we can send to them via our screwed-up RR IPs. A couple of months ago, we were remodeling our pharmacy, so I moved the server to my home. With appropriate changes to the A and MX records, it works as well as it did at the pharmacy. Blocking IP blocks is simply a lazy man's attempt to deal with a serious problem. Heck, just deny connections to those who have no rDNS and you'll lose about 15% of your legit mail. I tried that and couldn't even get mail from some of Microsoft's servers. On a personal note, I couldn't care less what AOL does. -- Best regards, Ben mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
