Hi
So Bill,
If I send an e-mail direct to your address rather than to the list and I fit
one or more of the criteria listed below
will that mean you may not get the message
or if you do it may be marked as potential SPAM
If I do so would you let me know the result?
Kind regards
Hill
----- Original Message -----
From: "W B Hacker" <wbh@???>
To: "exim users" <exim-users@???>
Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2006 7:10 PM
Subject: Re: [exim] SORBS
> Hill Ruyter wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I would like to garner opinion here
>>
>> I have found that my mailserver is being blocked by SORBS
>>
>> I sit on an ADSL2 connection and due to this being new technology the ISP
>> is
>> unable to issue me with a fixed address just now and so I am on a dynamic
>> address and use dyndns to host my mail and web for about 4 domains
>>
>> I have had no trouble up until now and then suddenly I find my address
>> listed in SORBS by nature of a bounced e-mail
>>
>> Is this an accepted practice
>> I am sure my mail server is reasonably well configured HELO is correct
>> domain is listed via dyndns to the same ISP that the address block belong
>> to
>> so there is an audit trail I am just stuck with a dynamic address at
>> the
>> moment
>>
>>
>> Any thoughts opinions or causes of action open to me are welcome
>>
>> Kind Regards
>> Hill Ruyter
>>
>>
>>
>
> Being limited to dynamic IP does not make you, or your server, a 'bad
> person'.
>
> It DOES make it very difficult for the rest of the world to for-sure
> separate
> your server from millions of infected PC's that *are* bad.
>
> So - no emotion involved, but we could be blocking you on several counts:
>
> - missing PTR record
>
> - 'known' dynamic IP
>
> - any of several public RBL's, dynamic IP or otherwise.
>
> - part of a /24 block on your entire upstream.
>
> - mere use of DynDNS
>
> (who may not have planned it so, but are of a class of services that have
> been
> abused by spammers).
>
> Best thing for the short-term is to find a sympathetic relay host.
>
> A 'real' one - not a dynDNS kludge.
>
> HTH,
>
> Bill
>
>
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