On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 14:51, Paul Howarth wrote:
Chris Hewitt wrote:
On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 04:18, Thomas Zehetbauer wrote: I do not see any problem in everyone using their ISP's mail server for outgoing email. It is easy to configure and provides some anti-spam measures for the ISP and for any unfortunate end-user mis-configuring a smtp server for open-relay.
Thomas, why would you not want to use your ISP's outgoing mail server?
I only use my ISP's mail server for sites that I cannot reach directly. One of the disadvantages of using the ISP's server is a loss of control; once the mail is delivered to the ISP you have no control over redelivery attempts (if the remote MXes are down), can't see if the mail has actually been delivered to the remote site's mail server etc. Knowing such things can be very useful when diagnosing mail problems.
Paul.
Paul,
True. I probably just do not have enough mail delivery problems to need anything else. I get a bounce message upon non-delivery and use that. The fact that I get very few means that as an ordinary ISP account user I have not found I need to do anything different.
Is Thomas's situation different I wonder?
Regards
Chris