Blocking MX query

Jay Ashworth jra at baylink.com
Tue Sep 4 14:44:41 UTC 2012


----- Original Message -----
> From: "William Herrin" <bill at herrin.us>

> 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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