Fun new policy at AOL

Matthew Crocker matthew at crocker.com
Fri Aug 29 20:15:47 UTC 2003


>
> You seem to be misunderstanding the issue. Let's say you work at
> someplace.edu. You want to send mail from home. With the SPF-type 
> schemes
> being discussed, your mail MUST come from someplace.edu's server.
>
> If someplace.edu won't set up an SMTP AUTH relay, what do you do? Your
> dialup account will let you use the dialup ISP's mail server... But 
> your
> mail will get bounced because it's not something from someplace.edu.
>
> Hence, if no SMTP AUTH relay, you're screwed.
>

Port forward 127.0.0.1:25 through to someplace.edu:25 using SSH.  Or 
VPN. Or ...

More than one way to skin this cat.

-matt




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