[kwlug disc.] OT: smarthost mail providers

[Paul Nijjar]

--- On Tue, 4/1/08, Rashkae <rashkae at tigershaunt.com> wrote:

> 
> There's no benefit to customers to do this filtering..  basically,
> it's a bold faced attempt to force companies who have several
> non-rogers e-mail accounts to pay rogers money to use those e-mail
> accounts to send e-mail.
> 

Well, I do think there is some potential benefit: it makes it harder
for spammers to send out mail via smarthosts. Having said that, I
agree that they structured the policy to "encourage" customers to pay
Rogers money to get their e-mail hosted (only $5 to 20/month per
user!). 

On the other hand, if you are running Exim (and probably other
configurable mailservers) then you can probably dance around this
limitation by choosing a smarthost account based on the sender's
e-mail address. Thankfully I did not have to figure out the details of
how to implement this, though. 

- Paul



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