On Thu, Oct 30, 1997 at 12:14:54AM -0500, Greg A. Woods wrote:
This frequently occurs when a user accesses a mail server at work from their home dialup account. If other ISPs did this, we would have a problem where a user dialing into their ISP couldn't reach their virtual mail server, hosted on our network. We currently don't have many going the other way, but that may change.
There's no excuse for this. The user should (and must in the proposed plan) use the mail relay operated by the ISP they dial into for *all* outgoing mail.
Yes, there is. It's a question of span of administrative control. If I decided to allow my users to make use of their telecommunting connectivity for personal use, I _do not want them_ using my mail server for that, so as to avoid any potential liability for my company under any theory. Sure, use the great high bandwidth connection, but get your mail and news services from a commercial provider. But then, you're probably the type that thinks an A record isn't enough to route mail, too... Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth jra@baylink.com Member of the Technical Staff Unsolicited Commercial Emailers Sued The Suncoast Freenet "Pedantry. It's not just a job, it's an Tampa Bay, Florida adventure." -- someone on AFU +1 813 790 7592