[exim] Re: bounce messages and their potential misuse

On 2006-04-01, W B Hacker <wbh@???> wrote:

>> I've already been forced to pay for an outbound mail service because
>> of RBL hell and my ISP's irresponsibility for providing outgoing SMTP.
>>
>>
>
> "RBL hell" is generally *earned* when one sets up an MTA w/o
> fixed IP and proper DNS - epsecially PTR records.
>
> Your ISP is acting appropriately and responsibly from the
> standpoint of the applicable RFC's, their published Terms of
> Service, Acceptable Use policies, etc.

That's not what I meant -- by irresponsibility I mean that their
smarthost is not reliable.