On Wed, 17 Mar 2004, Jethro R Binks wrote:
| I think there is a market for a new breed of ISP (or would be if these
| issues were more widely known); that implement a proper authenticated MSA,
| decent SMTP service, and will handle complaints properly. Does anyone
| provide such a service, independently to clients who don't also have a
| connectivity agreement with them? If I were wanting to run a home
| service, I would be looking for this sort of reputable function-specific
| ISP to relay my mail through, precisely to avoid the problem of
| having an 'end user' ADSL, and possibly dynamic, IP address being listed
| in a DNSBL.
DynDNS run an authenticated outbound SMTP service for this sort of situation.
Submission can be on a variety of ports, including 25 and 587 and they
have a decent abuse desk so things don't get blacklisted.
http://www.dyndns.org/services/mailhop/outbound/
I'm sure there are others.
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Chris Edwards, Glasgow University Computing Service
