[Mailman-Users] Some detail questions about migrating lists

Charles Marcus CMarcus at Media-Brokers.com
Mon Mar 17 15:22:05 CET 2008


On 3/17/2008, Frank Griffin (ftg at roadrunner.com) wrote:
> It's their billing model.  Most ISPs refuse to support secure SMTP
> because of the perceived cost of encryption.  The relayer does, but
> charges you twice as much for using TLS (actually, mails/bytes are
> billed against your account limit at 2x their value).  But that's
> unrelated to...

Most ISPs in the US simply allow relaying on their IP blocks...

But, they don't absolutely need to support *secure* smtp auth - basic 
smtp auth would be much better than using and easily forged 'From:' 
header...

I'd find another ISP/3rd party relay service...

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Best regards,

Charles


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