Naw - our stuff is good. The brat that wrote the stuff below is head of
computer security for the U of A and does the security on Open BSD. He
knows his stuff. The problem is your provider. What is below is in reply
to a problem we had with another person last fall. Just realize that if yo=
u
use earthlink you are blocking many legitimate well configured users from
your system becaue they are improperly set up.
Barb
-----Original Message-----
From:
Behalf Of
Sent: November 12, 2002 5:30 PM
To: Barb Beck
Subject: Re: Direct-to-MX mailing to EarthLink (021111-23023042)
Basically they are denying any email sent directly from cable
modems. For some reason it looks like they're using the MAPS DUL list,
and someone has it configured to believe that all of Shaw's IP space
is dialup/dynamic stuff that shouldn't send mail directly. This is of
course a problem, since many people on shaw's ip ranges use home
offices on their own SMTP servers just fine, and your server is most
definately not configured to relay. Unforutnatelyt the MAPS lists made
a name for themselves when they were good, then changed to a for-profit
list and haven't been worth a crap since, too error prone and poorly
maintained.
I would contact the person from outside (i.e. log on to GPU)
and suggest they find another service provider, since this one seems
rather obstinate about their mail and doesn't mind subscribing their
users to stuff that throws the baby out with the bathwater without
giving the user the option. Better to have your aquaintance switch to
a provider that isn't going to be a problem for their legitimate
mail. - as a temporary solution they could even get a hotmail account
or something - I can hack up a solution around it for you, but I don't
want to :) - If earthlink is going to be a problem for his
professional mail from you he should switch.
-Bob
-----Original Message-----
From: Walter Knapp
Sent: February 25, 2003 6:41 PM
To:
Subject: Re: [Nature Recordists] Some mic samples
Barb Beck wrote:
> Thanks Walter
>
> I have been wondering for months and months what that meant.
>
> Would have replied privately but your brain dead internet provider does
not
> recognize shaw cables space as valid which means that those of us with
> servers at home connected to several computers cannot send you mail from
our
> regular addresses. If earthilink had set up their secruity properly those
> problems would not occur.
SASS is probably straight from some Crown ad man. Though maybe someone
knows different.
Gee, I have a bunch of computers all simultaneously connected to the
internet via a single modem into mindspring's dialup. And it has no
problem with our email.
They do seem to recognize anything that follows the TCP/IP rules.
Walt
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