Ken, On Friday 02 June 2006 06:28, Ken Schneider wrote:
On Fri, 2006-06-02 at 14:15 +0100, John wrote:
So, to recap, if I set my postfix server to send direct via DNS, it may, or masy not, be logged by my ISP, depending on their nosiness.
For incoming mail, I use Freeparking (http://www.freeparking.co.uk/) to redirect to my own DNS server. Does this bypass my ISP or not?
Everything passes through your ISP, that's where your internet connection is.
It really bears emphasizing that there's a distinction between relaying email (it's a store-and-forward distribution mechanism) and transmitting information (email or otherwise) directly to a peer who is also the ultimate recipient of that information. In the former, the originating SMTP client (your email program) connects to an SMTP server and sends the message (all messages) which is then forwarded to the destination SMTP server by that intermediate server. In the latter, the only computers that handle the data between the originator and its final recipient are routers. This is still a kind of store-and-forward, but it's at the network level (IP), not the application level (SMTP). So while there are computers involved that are not owned or managed by the people at the endpoints of the communication even in the latter case, they deal with packets in isolation and far more of them, and don't generally have a lot of mass storage attached, so logging at that locus is not likely, at least not today and not until something forces the ISP and networking backbone companies to put a lot more hardware resources into the Internet's hardware infrastructure than they now need to. That something would probably be a law.
-- Ken Schneider
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