Deathless prose

[fanf]

I'm preparing a document that gives advice on sending email from within Cambridge University. The aim is to correct some confusion about the difference between our message submission server and our smart host, which has not mattered much in the past but will when we disable unauthenticated access to the former. I'm also documenting the forthcoming rate limiting restrictions.

Any comments or questions are welcomed. It'll be announced properly in due course...

http://www.cus.cam.ac.uk/~fanf2/hermes/doc/misc/sending-from-cudn.txt

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Most people don't need to understand the difference between a message submission host and a smart host. The document should start with a page on how to configure your machine to use the submission host, and a list, with links, of the cases when this is not appropriate - bulk mailers and mail servers if I understand correctly*. The trick is to alert the people who need to care, without requring everyone to read the technical stuff in order to decide that they don't need to know.

*although I can imagine some of my users' college unix machines running enough compute and cron jobs that they might hit 60 messages in an hour
if they are unlucky.