Agreed. I see no reason for pop users to router their outgoing mail through me when they have a closer and faster mail relay at their ISP specifically for that purpose.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Bill Shupp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 7:19 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [toaster] HELP...Toaster only accepting smtp connects from > localhost :( > > On Friday, June 20, 2003, at 07:05 AM, trevor wrote: > > > I had to work through this problem recently. Many of our users wanted > > to access and send email from home. All could access their imap > > accounts but almost none to send emails... due to the fact that almost > > all isps now block port 25 to anywhere but their own server. To work > > around this I set up another smtp server to run on another port and > > configured the users to send email to that port... it all works great > > now. If you need help figuring out how to add another smtp server let > > me know. > > FWIW, I always encourage my users to USE their ISP for outgoing SMTP. > The only time I don't is when their ISP prevents them from using a > different domain in their Return-Path. Limiting outgoing SMTP to the > user's ISP is one of the better ways of tracking and preventing mail > abuse since the ISP can track what account was actually using the > offending IP address. > > Regards, > > Bill Shupp
