Re: Networking -- use of two Internet connections for one server with round robin DNS -- web okay, but should I do mail this way too?

[Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk>]

On Mon 11 Jul 2011 at 08:04:48 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote:

> On 7/11/2011 4:27 AM, Chris Davies wrote:
> > 
> > Do you include people who run their own MTA on consumer xDSL in this
> > sweeping statement? I'm genuinely curious about this one, as I fall in
> > to that (probably small) group.
> 
> You're obviously new to the world of running an email server and spam
> fighting, or you wouldn't ask such a silly question.  For starters, see:
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-isp/2001/06/msg00096.html and note the
> age of the post and to what mailing list.  Now see:
> http://www.spamhaus.org/pbl/

Both essentially say - 'You may want to take responsibility for
delivering your own mail but are categorised as second-class, so we
will stop you'. Whatever the faults of the postal system it does not
force you to put all your deliveries in their post boxes or make a
special journey to one of their offices.

The spammers use the network to send (usually) unwanted mail. The spam
fighters deny legitimate use of the network. The two groups make using
email harder.

> The intent of fqrdns.pcre is identical to the PBL, simply using a
> different method, which is more thorough.

It might very well be. If my ISP were to interfere with my mail in such
a way I'd be off.