Sendmail/Exim and IP-Address

Gary Nichols plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Wed, 30 Jan 2002 23:24:38 -0700


Craig are you taking the 5th again?  8-)

You know what else I disliked about sprint was the prioritization of service 
traffic... but I won't even open that pandora's box.


> On Tue, 2002-01-29 at 18:46, Gary Nichols wrote:
> > Roderick,
> > 
> > You should test and make sure that incoming tcp/25 is not blocked and 
does 
> > not violate your TOS agreement.  Most consumer-level services are now 
> > blocking incoming SMTP to prevent people from setting up unauthorized 
> > relays and spam farms.
> > Not to mention that if you violate your TOS your provider can always 
pull 
> > your plug (as a few on this list have experienced in the past).
> > 
> -----
> Now I'm not saying that I run a mail server on my Sprint Broadband
> connection and I'm not saying that there is a forward dns pointing to my
> ip address which has never changed on Sprint Broadband but I know for
> certain that they don't block port 25/80/ICMP or anything of that
> nature.
> 
> Caching DNS server has worked for me...