Thanks for correcting me.
I understand how the blacklisting is done, but I forgot that the ISP's
differentiate between home and business IP blocks. I do remember reading
that in the rules now. The several times that I've worked with problems
like these, it's been with a business IP.
Sorry 'bout that, Michael J.
Brian Dessent wrote:
> Blaine Simpson wrote:
>
>
>>I can't tell whether you know it or not, but "business connection" or not
>>doesn't matter, as long as your DNS records, forward and reverse, are set
>>up right...
>
>
> It certainly matters. If it's a non-business connection and/or dynamic
> IP address then it's likely listed in many blacklists that admins use to
> refuse spam from home machines. And that's exactly what he said: "and
> since it's not a business connection, it'll likely be blacklisted by a
> lot of ISPs."
>
> Any mail servers using those lists will refuse to accept mail from him.
> AOL is one example of somewhere you can't send email to from a
> dynamic/home IP address. You're supposed to relay through your ISP's
> smarthost, so the theory goes.
>
> Brian
>
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