David Woodhouse wrote:
>On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 11:54 +0100, Toralf Lund wrote:
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>>There is of course a different, perhaps more serious, problem with using
>>localhost as SMTP server setting in the MUA (see previous thread): It
>>could mean that dynamically assigned IP addresses are listed in
>>Received, and some receiver's don't like that; they block all messages
>>from addresses in dynamic ranges, at least if they belong to a major ISP.
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>That would just be bizarrely broken. Block mail coming _directly_ from dynamic IP ranges
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Yes, I guess that's what most people do. But the simple, direct way to
configure the MTA is to use direct connections. The question was really
if there is a straight-forward, portable to way to set up Exim not to
(and partly also if that will actually help.) I mean portable in the
sense of a config that will work for different IP adresses and
connection via different LANs - typically for laptops etc. that may be
connected to one or more office LANs as well as to dial-up Internet
connections, direct ADSL links to ISPs etc.
>rather than through the ISP's smarthosts, perhaps --
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>but to block mail just because it happened to originate at a dynamic IP
>is insane.
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>When IPv4 and dynamic IP addresses are a distant memory I think we'll
>all be happy ;)
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>dwmw2
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