Someone said: "There is no legit reason AFAICT for not relaying through your
ISP."
I said: "Where have you been?"
You forgot #4
Since my ISP's SMTP server is shared, anyone using the same SMTP servers can
forge my email address!!!! This is not acceptable!!!
#3 yes!!! My email was less than 10 seconds from work to home and back.
Once I was forced to use my ISP's SMTP server(s) my round trip time was
minutes to hours, or lost or beyond my ability to track.
My ISP limits email to 10 Meg, that sucks. I have tried to send vacation
pictures and videos to friends and family, what a pain! But most ISPs have
a similar limit, so the destination of my email would not accept large
emails anyway (in most cases). So, this is not a real problem. My email
server limits email to 50 Meg. That is based on the amount of RAM in my
system! Seems procmail and ipop3d allocate memory equal to the size of the
email! What an odd design! If I were to receive two 50 meg emails at the
same time, my system would swap to death! I guess I need an upgrade!
Getting off topic...
Guy
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-spf-discuss(_at_)v2(_dot_)listbox(_dot_)com
[mailto:owner-spf-discuss(_at_)v2(_dot_)listbox(_dot_)com] On Behalf Of
Benjamin Franz
Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 7:51 PM
To: spf-discuss(_at_)v2(_dot_)listbox(_dot_)com
Subject: RE: [spf-discuss] Extreme times call for extreme measures?
On Wed, 6 Oct 2004 terry(_at_)ashtonwoodshomes(_dot_)com wrote:
2) Relay - no way, it just complicates things
Why? Other then the possibility of:
1) you are sending large files via email (ugh!) that your ISP refuses to
relay
2) you are sending large volumes of email and your ISP starts to refuse
your excessive transmissions
(your not going to admit to doing that on this list, are you... :)
There is no legit reason AFAICT for not relaying through your ISP. If (1)
or (2) is true, you
probably need a more commercial, dedicated connection anyway.
Or (3) - your ISP's mail servers are unreliable or unpredicatably slow.
Some of the largest are the worst for "oops - mail got delayed for 2 days
for no apparent reason". Not that uncommon a problem.
I get screams from customers if it takes _20 minutes_ to end-to-end an
email.
--
Benjamin Franz
Catapultam habeo.
Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis ad capul tuum saxum immane mittam.
(Translation: "I have a catapult. Give me all the money or I will fling
an enormous rock at your head.")
Henry Beard
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