One suggestion: try putting a Reply-to: <desired name> header in the email. Then if the relaying ISP rewrites the From: address you may get the Reply-to: out to your recipient.
Apart from that you won't have much luck.
The spammers have made the business of operating relays of ANY kind very difficult. As an ISP/Service Bureau I can tell you that we ALWAYS validate the domain name returned by the reverse-DNS query and if they don't match? Sorry, your not getting email in here! It is getting far too risky for us to do it any other way.
Some ISP's actually use the ARIN and similar dabase to determine block assignments for ISP's issuing dynamically assigned IP's, this is the problem rather than the simple fact of being a dial-up. You MAY (big may!) be bale to get a fixed IP assignment from your ISP, some have systems set up for doing that but sadly it is getting to be fewer and fewer who will.
Even sending email from a web host is difficult now. Because ARIN will no longer accept 'virtual hosting' as a justification for address assignments you will notice that most hosting house do not offer the possibility of relaying email through your site. Some do - by using a separate machine to do the relaying. But even this can fall down!
My advice? If you are really serious go out and get a dedicated server at a hosting house. They will give you an IP address (or even a small block) and with some you even get to run your own DNS. One company worth trying is to be found at
www.nocster.com (I use them but have no other association) who currently offer Exim 3.36 on their servers.
John Day
Toronto, Canada
At 12:11 PM 9/20/2002 -0400, Jeff Breitner wrote:
>> I'd like to use my own Linux-Box as SMTP-host because my ISP
>> always rewrites my e-mail adress but I'd like to use my
>> standard alias. (i use email@??? but after sending via
>> my ISP the recipient would see email@??? and would answer
>> to it ... ) The problem ist, that certain other ISPs will not
>> accept emails sent from dial-up hosts (in this case, my
>> privat pc), so how can I fix this???
>>
>
>
>The answer is, you can't. Refusing mail from known dial-up addresses is
>an administrative policy set by the system receiving the mail, not by
>your ISP.
>
>Assuming that you have your own domain name, this will only work for
>inbound mail if your ISP gives you either a dedicated IP address that
>can be referenced in your domain's MX record, or you use something like
>ETRN to dump your mail from a host that's online all the time (yuck).
>
>If you're just interested in firing up Exim and using it to send your
>own mail, then the problem you're going to experiece is just what you
>mentioned; some ISPs won't accept mail from known dial-up IP space.
>There's nothing you can do to fix that since it's a decision made at the
>receiving ISP.
>
>I disagree with your ISP rewriting your mail envelopes to change your
>address. I think that if they accept mail for relay, then they have to
>accept it as is and it simply is not their business to change it. I
>understand their reasoning, but fail to see how that changes anything
>when fighting/researching the cause of junk and abusive mail.
>
>
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