Re: Please participate in popularity-contest
* Andreas Metzler
> Well, "internet site" does not implement this for everybody without a
> fixed IP address, which I'd guess applies to more than 90% of our
> installations. Being listed on DUL guarantees that direct SMTP
> delivery does not work _reliably_. Blocking outgoing connections to
> port 25 except to smarthost is not uncommon either.
Of course, I do not expect that the package should perfectly handle
all kinds of installations - it's true that the «internet site»
option wouldn't work in all scenarios such as when an ISP blocks
port 25 egress or if you as and dial-up user try correspond with an
overzealous spam vigilante who refuses incoming connections based on
DULs alone. Fortunately, use of such measures seems to be used only
by a (not insignificant, though) minority of ISPs and postmasters.
However, using «internet site» in these scenarios is no worse than
using the local-only option - the outgoing email will in both cases
simply bounce back to sender.
The local-only option, on the other hand, guarantees with 100%
percent certainity that remote deliveries will -never- work, even
in the many cases where they easily could. I still do not comprehend
how it is possible for you to look upon this as the best default.
Anyway, it seems we're getting nowhere. EOD?
Kind regards,
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Tore Anderson
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