On 1 Nov 2006, Andreas Pettersson stated: > Steven Dickenson wrote: >> I can't agree with this. Many small businesses in the US get just these >> kind of static connections from broadband ISPs. >> Comcast, for example, has all of their static customers using rDNS that >> would fail your tests, and they refuse to set up a >> custom PTR record or delegate the record to someone else. > > I disagree on your disagreement. This is my opinion: If you don't have > control over your rDNS, do NOT run any mail server, unless > you relay all outbound mail through a server at your ISP.
What if you don't *have* a server at your ISP that you can relay your mail through, because your ISP expects you to send mail directly from your own mailserver? What if your ISP provides a server but it is horrifically unreliable? >> Most of these static customers are legitimate business networks >> running their own mail server, and have neither the need nor desire >> to relay their mail through Comcast's SMTP servers. I think your >> general idea is very good, but you're reaching a little too far with >> this one. > > 'No need nor desire', that's not really any good excuse. Use a relay > or find your mail rejected, I'd say. Charming. They're not spammers, but you want to punish them as if they were, because reality makes your tests too complicated. -- `When we are born we have plenty of Hydrogen but as we age our Hydrogen pool becomes depleted.'
