>> [outbound mail through the IP provider's SMTP gateway] is always >> available, immediate and easy.
This broad vote of confidence in a DSL provider's ability to size, configure, and stabilize a mail infrastructure seems pulled out of a hat of ISP-good-guru, SME-bad-newbie factoids. Our experience with DSL providers in the US is wide-ranging; between clients and personal use, I've dealt with fifteen different entities. Preferred providers know all about DSLAMs, CPEs, peering points, and IP routing, and have as good a relationship as possible with the local telco for timely installations; they don't use PPPoE, assign at least one static IP with a preassigned PTR, and have no problem with all upstream/downstream bandwidth being used for solicited traffic. Nowhere in this list is any core or even fringe competency in SMTP. If forced to extend the criteria to mastery of Internet mail, many are the clients that would be put out of business immediately; previous selections would be similarly unraveled if customer-specified PTRs were a retroactive requirement. -Sandy ------------------------------------ Sanford Whiteman, Chief Technologist Broadleaf Systems, a division of Cypress Integrated Systems, Inc. e-mail: [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/
