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From: "Arik Baratz" <arikb(_at_)vidius(_dot_)co(_dot_)il>
To: <spf-discuss(_at_)v2(_dot_)listbox(_dot_)com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 7:22 AM
Subject: RE: [spf-discuss] Maybe simple question
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From: Vivien M. [mailto:vivienm(_at_)dyndns(_dot_)org]
Yes, all of which assumes that the employer's IT dept cares. We're
talking
about an IT dept supporting 20K+ people here, and unless you have an
important role in the organizational hierarchy, they probably won't
listen
to you... The SMTP AUTH option is the only one that scales for large
organizations, anyways... Well, that and VPNs, but VPNs are more costly.
My hackerish response to this is that if it's that important to your
father to use
the university domain from home, have him setup a rogue SMTP relay
(authenticated of course!) on his office PC and relay from there, using
the
university's SMTP gateway. If the IT dept. doesn't care to provide
solutions
for working from home, they won't mind the occasonal well-secured rogue
relay
But other than that you are right. You're in a bind here. Whether the
price
your father pays weighs more than preventing spam is not for me to decide.
Your response assumes that he has an office machine, which he doesn't :)
(hence why it's so critical he be able to send mail from that account from
home) I suppose I could always dig out the old 486 from the closet, and see
if their IT department would let it be connected, if worst comes to worst...
but we can always hope they'll plan their SPF deployment (if any) carefully.
Hoping requires less effort for me :)
If we're going to get into hackish solutions, the "best" one (but a
usability nightmare) would be to SSH tunnel to their SMTP server through
their *NIX system, if it supports SSH these days. As of a year ago or so,
they were still Telnet-only (which I think gives you a perspective on how
slow-moving these organizations can be...), though I think/hope that they've
finally woken up and changed that. That solution is a nightmare from a
usability perspective, though, and a lot more murky from an AUP-type
perspective too.
Vivien
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