[wellylug] [OT] Ihug Blacklisted?

[Jethro Carr]

On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 17:43 +1200, Mark Foster wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 9 Aug 2005, Jethro Carr wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 17:17 +1200, Michael Dittmer (An Inside Job)
> > wrote:
> >> Hi Jethro
> >>
> >> Looks like the sender was using a dialup connection to send e-mail directly
> >> to the receiver. This is a big NO NO.
> >>
> >> I block all dynamic addresses because of spam from them and so do most of my
> >> clients and also other businesses I have spoken to. People on dynamically
> >> assigned IP's (including it seems static paradise cable IP's) need to
> >> smarthost their outbound e-mail through their ISP's mail server.
> >
> > hmmm...
> >
> > would that be so, because I'm sending the email straight to myself? It
> > would appear that mail is going straight to the receiver. I think this
> > was only a problem because the blacklist pushed it above the 3.0
> > threshold.
> >
> > anyway, I disconnected my router and waited, and my IP address has
> > changed, so it's going now. :-)
> >
> > It seems that back in 2003 it got added to the blacklist, but being
> > dynamic I got it.
> 
> Jethro - dynamic IP's are almost always an automatic block.
> You should _always_ be using a fixed host as an SMTP relay, if you're seen 
> to be sending mail direct from your dynamic IP you will get in trouble. 
> Guarunteed.
> 
> If you're an ihug customer all email should be sent to smtp.ihug.co.nz for 
> outbound purposes (independant of where your email is hosted).
> 
> Exception would be where you are able to relay mail from a static IP 
> address (and even then, if the static is associated with DSL or Dialup its 
> not usually wise.  Frame Relay or other commercial grade is what i'm 
> talking about).
> 
> Hope that helps
> Mark.

cheers Mark,

I'll check up on my settings.


-- 
Jethro Carr <jethro.carr at jedolinux.com>

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