Hi All. I thought I'd follow up my original Email, in case anyone else cares. As I expected, there are a few options, and reasons for and against. Summary: * Connections initiated from the inside out to the ISP have advantages in terms of firewall rules, and not having to run 'internet servers' in your network. POP3 isn't a good protocol to do this with, quota restrictions @ ISP, large messages sometimes not handled well, mail lists and bcc's not handled well in many cases, probably more reasons here. * ATRN/ODMR is quite new, and no-one in NZ (that I've been able to find) supports it at present. * SMTP/ATRN (or ETRN for that matter) are better than POP due to abilities to reject message prior to receiving, better handling of large messages (IMHO), not relying on fixed mailbox quota's etc. There are undoubtedly more reasons. * Paradise have a dsmtp service for emailing via. dynamic IP Addresses, but that's geared off their dialin radius, not ADSL radius, so can't work with ADSL connections. Don't ask me why...... If they did, they'd stand a much better chance to keep my business in the future. * There is of course the company that supports vpns over dynamic connections, and hence gives you a fixed IP over the VPN. That would work well I'm sure, much like a Static IP address. * Plenty of other ways to homebrew something if you have controll of an ISP mail server, not sure of the easiest, more research required here. Anyway, that's my take on the situation, no easy answer but the POP3 (ala fetchmail) multidrop mailbox appears to be widely supported, except for paradise. Bother. Cheers -
-----Original Message----- From: owner-nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz [mailto:owner-nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz]On Behalf Of steve(a)spl.co.nz Sent: Monday, 21 October 2002 8:47 a.m. To: nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Subject: Any isps support ODMR - RFC2645?
Hiya.
I've been investigating multi-drop mailboxes etc., for home use. The concept of On Demand Mail Routing (ODMR - RFC2645) came up. Do any ISP's in NZ support this? There is RFC2645 which seems to cover what I'm after in such a way as to easily support smtp queueing over dynamic internet connections etc. (jetstart to be precise)
I've asked Paradise, and they aren't/can't oferring such a thing.
Is anyone here offering this?
Paradise also don't seem to have a useable header for calculating the original recipient in all cases. Do any other ISP's have a reliable consistent header that is accurate, not duplicated and contains the correct values even when bcc'd from Mail Lists?
I'd seriousely consider changing providers if I can confirm one of the above.
Cheers -
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