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Re: Blocking MX query


From: Ray Wong <rayw () rayw net>
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2012 08:47:41 -0700

On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 7:44 AM, Jay Ashworth <jra () baylink com> wrote:
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From: "William Herrin" <bill () herrin us>

There are no "good" subscribers trying to send email direct to a
remote port 25 from behind a NAT.

Users, like myself, running Linux on home computers and laptops; our local
sendmail-equivalents will in fact attempt direct delivery to remote SMTP MX
servers, and we generally move around enough that setting a smarthost is
semi-impractical, at least on laptops.

OpenVPN, et al...

nice for being able to not only relay via the home server, but also
access SMB or even NFS shares and the like, which you'd also not want
reachable from the outside.


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