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Re: (OT) ISP's that don't allow relaying
- To: <frodo(at-nospam)sharat.co.il>
- Subject: Re: (OT) ISP's that don't allow relaying
- From: mulix <mulix(at-nospam)actcom.co.il>
- Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 16:22:11 +0200 (IST)
- Cc: <linux-il(at-nospam)linux.org.il>
- Delivered-To: linux.org.il-linux-il@linux.org.il
- In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0112141613420.13809-100000@frodo.sharat.co.il>
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On Fri, 14 Dec 2001 frodo@sharat.co.il wrote:
> SS>> too much :). You can try and get Actcom to do an "SMTP after POP"
> SS>> arrangment. In any case, don't get mad at them for not relaying.
> SS>> Relaying is BAAAD.
>
> Actually, relaying for own client's IP is good. That's the part of ISP
> service. And ISP can easily know for any given IP if it is their IP or
> not. And AFAIK most ISPs in Israel act exactly this way (I'm not sure
> particullary for Actcom, though).
actcom does it as well, of course, but the case in point is when a
client has an *email only* account, which means the client must be
connected through some other isp, which means the ip is *not* one of
actcom's ips - hence, no relaying.
--
mulix
http://vipe.technion.ac.il/~mulix/
http://syscalltrack.sf.net/
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