Fw: Yahoo says I'm a Spam-o-Rama (via DynDNS)
----- Original Message -----
From: "BruceG" <bruce-lists@manygriffi.blogdns.net>
To: "Colin Watson" <cjwatson@debian.org>
Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 8:39 AM
Subject: Re: Yahoo says I'm a Spam-o-Rama (via DynDNS)
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Colin Watson" <cjwatson@debian.org>
> To: "Debian-User" <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 8:07 AM
> Subject: Re: Yahoo says I'm a Spam-o-Rama (via DynDNS)
>
>
> > On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 07:04:31AM -0500, BruceG wrote:
> > > Okay, I'm happily e-mailing away to friends and family, and lo and
> behold
> > > (fancy talk for "wha wha whaat????") - I find out that Yahoo pops me
> into
> > > the Spam block list. I know this was talked about recently (wasn't
> it?) -
> > > and had something to do with dynamic DNS users.
> > >
> > > Questions are: if I go for a registered domain name and still keep
> Dynamic
> > > service (I'm behind a DSL router and do not have a static IP) will I
> still
> > > be in spam jail? Do I have to go for a static IP and a registered
domain
> > > name? That sounds kind of expensive!
> > >
> > > Right now I figure I'll send out through my ISP POP mail when mailing
> > > important stuff I don't want in Spam lists. I'd rather just SMTP out
my
> > > server, though (like this e-mail).
> >
> > You should always send outgoing mail through your ISP's smarthost, or
> > some other similar machine. There are good reasons for this besides
> > avoiding dial-up spam lists; your ISP's smarthost is more reliably
> > connected than you are, and can therefore handle SMTP retries more
> > properly.
> >
> > There is no need for a static IP to do this properly, and dynamic DNS is
> > irrelevant. The issue is that you're trying to send mail directly from a
> > dynamic *IP address*. People on dynamic IP addresses should always relay
> > mail through some other machine, such as their ISP's mail server. This
> > takes about a minute to configure and after that you won't notice it.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > --
> > Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
> >
>
> Thanks, that helps out. I found info from my LUG on configuring Sendmail
to
> use my ISPs smarthost [mail.bellsouth.net]. How do I translate that into
> Exim3 land? Can I simply do a dpkg-reconfigure to go through the steps,
and
> would it be exim I'm reconfiguring (I tried "dpkg-reconfigure
> exim --priority low" but didn't get anything back.
>
(sorry Colin, I sent this directly to you and should have kept it on the
list)
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