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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical RE: Fun new policy at AOL
> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Matthew Crocker > Sent: August 29, 2003 3:58 PM > To: Vivien M. > Cc: 'Mikael Abrahamsson'; [email protected] > Subject: Re: Fun new policy at AOL > > > > >> > >> You switch service provider or give them a whack with the cluebat. > > > > And if the "service provider" is your employer/educational > > institution? You > > quit your job? Drop out of school? Swallow your pride and > suffer with > > webmail? > > > > Spend $19.95 getting a dialup account for an ISP with a clue and use > their mail servers. If employed charge the $20/month on your expense > report. You seem to be misunderstanding the issue. Let's say you work at someplace.edu. You want to send mail from home. With the SPF-type schemes being discussed, your mail MUST come from someplace.edu's server. If someplace.edu won't set up an SMTP AUTH relay, what do you do? Your dialup account will let you use the dialup ISP's mail server... But your mail will get bounced because it's not something from someplace.edu. Hence, if no SMTP AUTH relay, you're screwed. Vivien -- Vivien M. [email protected] Assistant System Administrator Dynamic DNS Network Services http://www.dyndns.org/
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