Fun new policy at AOL

Fri Aug 29 19:01:22 UTC 2003

> >But how about this: in addition to MX hosts, every domain also has one 
> >or more MO (mail originator) hosts. Mail servers then get to check the 
> >address of the SMTP server they're talking to against the DNS records 
> >for the domain in the sender's address. Then customers who use an email 
> >address under their ISP's domain have to use the ISP's relay, while 
> >people with their own (sub) domain get to use their own.

I travel around. I read my email by POP3/IMAP, I use local ISP's SMTP
server for outgoing - surely that means I can't use my own domain for
email?

Simon
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