From: Kevin Stevens (groupspursued-with.net)
Date: Tue Jan 01 2008 - 22:08:57 CST

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On Jan 1, 2008, at 18:08, terry.gilsenaninteroil.com wrote:

> Matthias Schmidt wrote:
>> Am/On Tue, 1 Jan 2008 20:45:37 -0500 schrieb/wrote Terry Carmen:
>>
>> with these rules you might also reject legal eMails from servers
>> running
>> via dyndns, or?
>>
> <snip>
>
> Surely that would depend entirely on the recipients interpretation
> of "legal eMails", eg: my server, my rules.
>
> I am of the opinion that people on dynamic connections should ether
> be relaying emails via their ISP's SmartHost, or connecting to the
> submission port and authenticating (method not discussed here). Its
> one or the other.
>
> Regards,
> T

Well - no.

You can certainly decide to accept or reject whatever mail you want by
whatever rules you define, but legality, in this context, means RFC
compliant. As someone who runs a compliant mailserver, on a business
DSL IP (static), I get a lot of blocks from over-enthusiastic
blacklists.

KeS

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