RE: [cobalt-users] Spam blocking

["David Crocker" <dcrocker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jeff, thanks for the clarification.

>>
The most important issue is really this:

Do you allow your clients to use your mailserver for outgoing email?  In
other words are they required to use their ISP's mailserver, or do you
run POP before SMTP, and allow them to use your server for outgoing
email?

Do you use your own mailserver yourself?
<<

I don't allow my clients to send mail direct to our server, they have to send
outgoing mail through their own ISP. The original reason I chose this
arrangement was that I couldn't think of a way of configuring my server to relay
for them without being a potential spam relay as well (given that my clients
mostly have dynamic IP addresses). I guess there is a way of doing this by
requiring some sort of secure logon to the mail server. But the current
arrangement seems to work fine anyway.

David Crocker
Escher Technologies Ltd.
www.eschertech.com
Tel. +44(0)1252 336565  Fax +44(0)1252 320954