On Fri, 2006-06-02 at 12:50 +0200, Per Jessen wrote:
John wrote:
Can someone please clarify the following:
If I use my ISP to send email, they log it and keep the record for years.
If I elect to use my server with its DNS capability to send the mail 'direct', even though I still need the ISP to give me an internet connection, they have nothing to log.
Is my understanding correct?
Your ISP can theoretically intercept anything and everything your servers sends or receives as your internet-connection obviously goes through your ISP.
If you operate your own mailserver, your ISP would need to be listening in on e.g. port25 to have anything to log - not likely, but far from impossible.
And the funny thing is that if I wanted to contact my nogoodnick buddies, I would choose to use other than port 25. Maybe their evil smtp daemon is listening on port 666 (evil, don't ya know). Just about any e-mail client lets you select the port. All this with standard off-the-shelf software. -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems AB Ramböll Sverige AB Kapellgränd 7 P.O. Box 4205 SE-102 65 Stockholm, Sweden Tel: Int +46 8-615 60 20 Fax: Int +46 8-31 42 23 -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com