Mr Ned Said:
If my home smtp server is in new england, but i am travelling
in australia, the speed and reliability of my connection are
bound to be very poor. You and I both recognize the
advantage of using a local mail relay instead of always being
bound to a single mail relay across the world. Plus, as you
said, "if you can connect"... A lot of ISPs and corporate
networks filter port 25.
What have you guys got against Australia? If you're going to pick on somewhere
as an example of a backwater, try not to pick on our continent as an example -
maybe Antarctica would be a better choice <g>.
I live on the Australian East Coast, my SMTP outgoing server is in the UK, I
use SMTP Auth / SMTP TLS for sending messages, it's not much slower than when i
was in the UK. I see absolutely no advantage to having a local SMTP server, it
certainly doesn't cost any less to use. I have little desire to choose and
evaluate the trustworthiness of SMTP servers every time i connect up to a local
ISP.
Are you familiar with SASL AUTH?
I am familiar enough to know that it is used to authenticate
the sender. But when a person receives the message, they
don't know if the sender was authenticated or not. The
message could have come from anybody.
Hmm, sounds like a good reason to have SPF.
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