On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 12:55, Trevor Smith wrote: > On December 1, 2004 12:37 am, Ernie McCracken wrote: > > For awhile, I just used sendmail to deliver mail directly. Then I found > > that some of my mail was bouncing because ISPs had deemed my IP address > > was part of a block of DHCP-assigned IP addresses. This was presumably > > done to keep spammers and virus-infected machines from sending mail > > directly from their PC. > > OK, this suggests a few questions to me: > > 1. it appears you are saying that sending directly through my localhost's > sendmail *will* work from different networks. Was that what you found? (I > haven't tested yet.) Depending on whether that particular network already has their IP blacklsited. > > 2. Assuming yes to #1 above, was it sending through sendmail that was causing > people to blacklist you? Not really. Just that in the internet, ppl are using those kinds of methods as a way to send out spam. > I don't quite understand the technology involved > well enough to see how this would be a problem. It's a problem because a lot of ppl do not sufficiently protect their sendmail/ PC enough to actually not make it open to the world.
