RE: [cobalt-users] Open Relaying

[<rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> As far as the extra hop, it certainly is.
> You @ your connection --> Your Cobalt server --> Recipient's POP
> or
> 
> You @ your connection --> Recipient's POP

Not true, Dan. The options (if you use your own SMTP server) are:

you --> ISP-SMTP --> recipient
you --> YOUR-SMTP --> recipient

No reason the ISP's SMTP should relay through you; that's precisely
what we all try to avoid. So, using your own SMTP will look just as
though you'd sent it from inside the LAN.

> > There are more concrete advantages as a business - the fact that
> > it's gone in your own logs for instance; that you can apply sendmail
> > rules as you wish; etc..
> 
> If you're doing that, although I suppose for most people, as 
> far as logs go, their sent items, or however they have their
> mail client configured to do something with sent messages
> would suffice. Probably 99% aren't doing anything except
> relaying and not using any sendmail rules on their server.
> Personally, I have Outlook 2000 keep a copy of my reply in 
> the client's folder.

As do I. However, recall the other threads about monitoring and even
virus-scanning all email for various reasons. And that 1% will find
even more benefit. As a secondary issue, I find that always telling
my users to use the same servers befuddles them slightly less than
telling them to use whatever ISP's SMTP server. They connect to the
Net, from anywhere in the world, then wander their way back to *my*
SMTP server without changing any configuration. This makes my life
much easier.

-- 
Rodolfo J. Paiz
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