Re: Current status?

In article <t_Wvk.2076$U5.1028@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jan-Erik_S=F6derholm?= <jan-erik.soderholm@xxxxxxxxx>
writes:

Log watchers, webcam watchers,
etc, anything which sends notification by email when something
"interesting" happens, using its own built-in mail server;

*Server* ?? I set up my cheap Zyxel DSL modem/router to send
notifications to me, but it not a *server*. It uses whatever mail
server it get's after doing a DSN-MX lookup on the receiver
address, and that should be the official SMTP server of my
ISP, as far as I understand.

Why whould anything just needing to *send* a mail have a
smtp *server* implementation ?

You use "server" to mean "receiving end". A more general use, intended
here, is "handles traffic". Thus, incoming server and outgoing server.
You are sending your email TO the proper receiving server (via MX), but
it is still coming from your machine, not an "official email server".
Technically, there is no problem with your scheme, but in practice, such
machines on dial-up, volatile IP addresses are the main source of spam,
and are thus blocked by more and more people.

Many STMP servers are neither senders nor receivers, but relays.

.

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