--On 9 November 2006 20:44:38 +0000 Hill Ruyter <hill@???> wrote:
> But does that really mean I should not be allowed to have a mail server ?
> or rather does that mean I should therefore be classed as a second class
> SMTP Citizen
> because I have struck a particular deal with my ISP ?
Well, being a nice guy doesn't let you get past airport security checks,
and doesn't exempt you from bans on carrying dangerous items.
Similarly, being a nice guy doesn't get you past RBL checks that are hugely
successful in blocking spam. These days, you just have to accept that you
can't use a dynamic IP address for sending email. To do so, you'd either
have to convince the maintainer of a list of dynamic IP addresses, that the
list should be incomplete. Or, you have to convince everyone that you might
ever want to send email to, to whitelist you. Some sites don't do
whitelisting - heck, why would I whitelist an IP address that could change
ownership overnight! Even if, by some extraordinary effort, you were able
to achieve this, then you'd have to make that extraordinary effort again
whenever your IP address changed.
>
> The majority of my mail seems to get where it is going
> But on the other hand I would like to have everything nice and clean and
> tidy so I will be in discussion with my ISP
>
> Hill
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Marc Sherman" <msherman@???>
> To: <exim-users@???>
> Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2006 8:26 PM
> Subject: Re: [exim] SORBS
>
>
>> Hill Ruyter wrote:
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> That is the thing
>>> I am a business customer but I am trialling their ADSL2+ service
>>> this has some limitations i.e. no fixed addresses yet
>>>
>>> but I get the benefit of high bandwidth at 512k prices ;)
>>
>> That's between you and the ISP, really. If they're not giving you a
>> static IP on the service, then it isn't really a business service
>> they're offering you.
>>
>> - Marc
>>
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