Hey Benoit,

in short: yes, we do, for customers with high technial experience (i.e. we can trust that they are by default doing the right thing [tm].)

Best,

Nico

Benoit Panizzon benoit.panizzon@imp.ch writes:

Dear List

We sometimes get requests from business customers, with own mailserver, which directly receives email via smtp, for an outgoing smtp-relay.

I then argue with:

• Their server is absolutely capable of sending emails directly
• They have better control of the sending process.
• They can look for problem them self in their logs.
• Anti-Spam thresholds aimed at end users, not companies.
• They are not affected if another customer is spaming and therefore the IP of the relay blacklisted.

But still, I then often get an "BUT... you are our ISP, isn't it your duty to offer such a relay service? Other ISP do this!"

rly? Do other ISP still offer smtp relaying services to business customers with own email infrastructure?

Mit freundlichen Grüssen

-Benoît Panizzon-

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