[TriLUG] Spamhaus PBL'd...

[Ivan Panarusky]

Gmail will accept mail from residential IP addresses. Hotmail will not.

On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 5:57 PM, Randy Barlow <randy at electronsweatshop.com>wrote:

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> Brian Henning wrote:
> > Since it's usually understood that things like PBLs should be taken as
> > hints (right?), why is mail.trilug.org refusing mail from my server
> > based on that criterion?
> >
> > Especially TriLUG, since how many of us might want to run our own mail
> > servers (but have a residential ISP service), and since the community
> > would generally encourage such a thing?
> >
> > WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS?!?!?!
> >
> > Just kidding on the angst bit, but it would be cool if my mail would go
> > through. :-)
>
> I'm actually glad that most mail servers don't accept mail from dynamic
> IPs, because that's one of the primary ways that spam gets around.  I
> would recommend configuring your MTA to act as a relay to an MTA that
> will accept mail from you, and make very sure that you don't allow
> yourself to be an open relay (require encrypted authentication!).  I use
> RRs MTA to relay my mail, personally...
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