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.
Devdas Bhagat