Blocking MX query

Suresh Ramasubramanian ops.lists at gmail.com
Tue Sep 4 15:54:53 UTC 2012


What sort of an mta do you run on your laptop that doesnt support smtp auth?

On Tuesday, September 4, 2012, Jay Ashworth wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "William Herrin" <bill at herrin.us <javascript:;>>
>
> > There are no "good" subscribers trying to send email direct to a
> > remote port 25 from behind a NAT.
>
> Users, like myself, running Linux on home computers and laptops; our local
> sendmail-equivalents will in fact attempt direct delivery to remote SMTP MX
> servers, and we generally move around enough that setting a smarthost is
> semi-impractical, at least on laptops.
>
> I'm a bad subscriber, Bill?
>
> Cheers,
> -- jra
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