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Re: Fun new policy at AOL

  • From: Matthew Crocker
  • Date: Fri Aug 29 16:23:24 2003 




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.





Port forward 127.0.0.1:25 through to someplace.edu:25 using SSH. Or
VPN. Or ...



More than one way to skin this cat.



-matt