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On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 10:29 AM, Grant Edwards |
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<grant.b.edwards@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On 2012-03-14, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> On Monday 12 Mar 2012 18:34:37 Grant Edwards wrote: |
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>>> On 2012-03-12, Stroller <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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>>>> No, I simply meant that if you use Postfix you don't have to use |
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>>>> anyone else's SMTP server, |
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>>> If you've got a static IP address, a domain, an MX record, and |
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>>> whatever other requirements a lot of sites are now placing upon |
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>>> senders of mail. |
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>>> I used to use my own SMTP server, 10 years ago it worked fine. More |
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>>> recently, too many destinations wouldn't accept mail from me -- so I |
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>>> had to start using mail relays. |
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>> Perhaps your mail address was blacklisted? Many ISPs IP address |
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>> blocks are blacklisted these days. |
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> I know that was sometimes the case from the rejection message sent by |
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> the destination SMTP server. Even though I had a static IP address |
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> and an valid MX entry for the sending machine's hostname, some sites |
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> wouldn't accept mail because my static IP addres was in a block used |
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> for DSL customers (of which I was one). |
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Yeah, I can't even send email to my gmail account from my Comcast |
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public IPv4 address. |
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>> Also some ISPs are blocking ports (like 25 and 2525) to minimise spam |
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>> sent out of compromised boxen. They would typically allow you to |
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>> relay through their mailservers though. |
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> I've never run into that, but I know people who have. |
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> In either case, I wouldn't advise anybody to try using their own SMTP |
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> server to deliver mail directly to destinations unless they have their |
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> own domain, their own IP block, and the time+skills require to fight |
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> with the problems. Anybody with the requisite resources and skills |
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> probably wouldn't be asking questions here about how to use Gmail's |
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> SMTP server. |
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My workaround involved relaying my network's outgoing email through my |
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VPS node's email server. (My VPS provider, prgmr.com, doesn't seem to |
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be on any blocklists, etc.) |
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