I agree...to a point...if you can't send email out port 25...then is there really a worry about you becoming an open relay...I say open inbound 25 and keep outgoing closed. This way should someone make a mistake and be open to the world, BS will catch it because you can only smart relay through them, you'll be pushing thousands of emails through THEIR server a day...
Then punish the HELL out of that fool! My $.02 > > If it's blocked they don't have to worry about a customer setting up an > SMPT server that is an open relay which spammers love to abuse and > causes headaches for the ISP. > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
