--- Devdas Bhagat dodobh@nettaxi.com wrote:
On Sat, 11 Aug 2001, Q u a s i spewed into the ether:
I kick myself for voting them the best ISP in a
survey some time
back. Those rotten assholes have gone mad or
something? We should
all come together and sue them for wasting so many
man hours to fix
this idiosyncrasy.
Don't waste your time. Either run your own mail servers, or switch ISPs.
But the current situation is bad, so a few
questions.
- If we have our own smtp server running (eg.
exim, qmail) then will
the current restrictions of VSNL affect us? Or
will it affect only
those using VSNL smtp gateways?
Currently, VSNL isn't blocking outbound port 25. So you can use your own mail server. How you handle queuing is a different matter. See current headers. Postfix rocks
- If we have our own smtp gateway, we bypass vsnl
dont we? Yes, unless you have VSNL set as a smarthost. I suggest running a caching nameserver on your mail serveer, speeds things up quite a bit.
I don't understand one thing here. I believe that VSNL has stopped permitting relaying through its mailservers, unless the remote host is part of VSNL's domain. That is something which would be well within VSNL's rights, or isn't it?
My other question is, if that is not the case, what does VSNL verify? The envelope sender's address or the mail header itself?
Rgds,
Krishnan
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