Re: DynIP mail blocking considered harmful

From: Joerg Rossdeutscher (ratti_at_gesindel.de)
Date: 12/21/03

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Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:51:57 +0100

    Hi,

    Am Fr, den 19.12.2003 schrieb Adam um 09:02:
    > On Thursday 18 December 2003 21:40, Joerg Rossdeutscher wrote:
    >
    > > You share a network neighbourhood with _others_. Your machine start
    > > connections to my machine, and when my machine want's to answer your
    > > machine half an hour later, _your_ machine is gone, or another machine
    > > is answering, or..., so your computer makes trouble. And I don't let you
    > > make trouble to my machine.
    >
    > You don't necessarily need to connect back to the same machine to bounce
    > an e-mail or reply to it, as long as the return address is valid.

    valid - and the machine that accepts mail is always online.
    I think fallbacks in case of error (retry to deliver mail after
    5,10,60,... minutes) should not be the "standard"-way.

    > Many
    > static networks have different hosts for incoming and outgoing mail. Many
    > home users operating their own outgoing MTA get their incoming mail by
    > POP3 from a static server.

    That's the way I use it. Outgoing SMTP with smarthost. "Incoming" mail
    via fetchmail. Mail is fetched every some minutes when I am already
    online, every some hours if I'm offline, every time I go online and
    manually by an icon in my gnome menue.

    Bye, Ratti 

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