Re: Now well off-topic - was Re: [Exim] how to configure HEL…

> That is exactly the case. First, some have suggested buying additional
> services to resolve this problem. When my daughter asks for a bicycle,
> I'm not going to say "sorry, but daddy has to pay for a third-party
> smarthost because some elitist pinheads won't accept his email
> otherwise." My daughter wins, you lose.

I agree. All I ask from an ISP is my own IP. I have everything I need. I
do my own smtp, web, whatever. I don't need some wiseguy on the net say
that I have to use services from my ISP when I don't need them. Granted the
smarthost is generally free with the service. Not all ISPs will change the
PTR record for you (One ISP I used did). Why? It's simple. When/if you
decide to go to another provider, they won't remember this small detail
(others may argue it's not a small detail, but to an ISP it is) and forget
to change it back to what it was supposed to be.

Some ISPs, the changing of the PTR is a 'pay' service. I don't like the
fact that I'm dial249.abington.naxs.com (I think that's right or close), but
it's just something I live with. Why should I pay my ISP more $$ for
something I don't need just to satisfy 1 user?

> It's Absolutly the case that more and more ISP's are assigning static
> IP's out of the same space as dynamic, and that they won't set the PTR
> record for you.

As did mine, but then again, it's a static dialup.

> As to a reality pill, I RARELY encounter an email server that uses DUL /
> Dynamic IP blocking. I NEVER encounter it in any larger businesses. In
> the rare case I DO encouter it, a friendly chat with the president /
> owner and the block is gone when they realize that it can cost them
> business. No word as to whether the BOFH running their email server
> still has a job or not...

I did the other day. My ip was listed in easynet's dynablock. First I'd
heard of it. I simply emailed them, and within an hour, I was no longer
listed.

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