Re: It's Bombastic

jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Jim) writes:

Garrett Wollman <wollman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Shirley the right policy is to have it turned off for everyone by
default, and allow those with sufficient clue to request it to be
turned on, no?

Wouldn't that break sending from most mail clients?

I'm not saying that's a bad thing, mind.

Most mail clients can now submit mail via a certain port somewhere in
the range 600 +/- 13, and have no need to use port 25 for that purpose.
We're getting more and more of our users to use the newer submission
port. (Admittedly some of them won't switch before they die. I am
resisting the urge to help that process along.)

If you think you should run a mail server on an IP that has reverse DNS
that looks like 666.666.666.666.ima.luser.bombast.net, in an IP range
that by your ISP's policy is supposed to host home client machines and
not servers, then I won't be accepting your mail even if your ISP isn't
blocking your port 25 connections, unless you actually authenticate
yourself to my mail server via the above-mentioned port that's not 25,
or smarthost through another system that looks like a real mail server.

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