better blocking at MTA level (off-topic)

[Hugo van der Kooij]

On Sat, 26 May 2007, Koopmann, Jan-Peter wrote:

> On Saturday, May 26, 2007 12:14 PM Dhawal Doshy wrote:
>
>> Run 2 instances of your MTA on different IPs.. one for incoming and
>> the other for outgoing.. the incoming can be strictly configured with
>> the above and you can be less strict on the outgoing as long as there
>> is smtp-auth
>
> How would that help? Their clients do not use SMTP AUTH but rather send
> usual mail. From e.g. ships via satellite without SMTP proxies. Or
> managing directors sending important mail from dynamic IPs etc. If I
> tell our client to not accept that mail and teach his/her customers to
> finally setup a correct mail service they will fire me right away since
> they need those mails and it is not really considered good style to
> "educate" your customer...

Then just ask for more hardware and live with the increasing amount of 
spam. If educating users is considered harmfull I would make sure my 
resume is up-to-date and start looking for another job.

Hugo.

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