Re: important people (!) unable to use sourceware

[Jim Kingdon <kingdon@redhat.com>]

It sounds like you are mostly talking about the DUL
( http://mail-abuse.org/dul/ ) which basically says "we don't accept
mail directly from a dial-up".  This is a separate issue (in terms of
what it lists) from the other blocking lists (RBL, ORBS, or RSS).
Last I looked the DUL blocks a *lot* of spam so I'm sure that if we
turned it off we'd get lots of complaints from the spammed ones.  It
isn't like ORBS where we could probably do without it and not miss it
much.

> I would propose that a "requirement" on the system be that people be
> able to travel and hook up their laptops to major ISPs and still use
> our system.

You just need some mail server which you can authenticate yourself to
(or which otherwise will accept mail from you).  Sometimes this will
be the "major ISP" that you dial into, sometimes it will be your home
ISP/company (using POP-before-SMTP usually, although it could be
something more exotic like smtpauth).  Or, as has been suggested, use
an SSH tunnel to a machine where you can send the mail.

No one has a really nice solution to the problem of sending email
while on the road.  But just counting on being able to send from your
laptop to the destination mail server is becoming less possible (for
example, more and more dialup ISPs are blocking port 25 outbound,
which would foil this kind of usage quite aside from anything which
sourceware is doing).