On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 15:46 +0000, Paul Howarth wrote: > Alexander Volovics wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 09:03:26AM -0500, Scot L. Harris wrote: > > > > > >>Ah, there were spammers on @home which resulted in whole sale black > >>listing. Now that does happen. Also a lot of email admins will block > >>dynamic IP address ranges. If you happen to be trying to run an email > >>server from a dynamic IP address (even if your assigned address has not > >>changed in years) a large part of the Internet will not accept SMTP > >>connections from you. In that case you just need to route your email > >>through your ISPs SMTP servers. Not much else you can do about that. > > > > > > The problem is I *am* routing my email through my ISPs SMTP server! > > No, you're not. At least you're sending mail to this mailing list > directly from your own machine (cm10703-a.maast1.lb.home.nl > [84.30.68.3]) to Red Hat's MX hosts, not via any smarthost: > > Received: from cm10703-a.maast1.lb.home.nl (cm10703-a.maast1.lb.home.nl > [84.30.68.3]) > by mx1.redhat.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j1IFgvvu021330 > for <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>; Fri, 18 Feb 2005 10:42:57 -0500 > Received: by af.ever.maas (Postfix, from userid 500) > id C7446140FEB; Fri, 18 Feb 2005 16:46:37 +0100 (CET) ---- for what it's worth, I had 1 mail server that rejected my mail because it originated from my smtp server that used a 'smart host' and it couldn't resolve my smtp server via reverse dns - which is the point of using a smart host. Craig
