I am posting this message so to let others know there is a solution available for those who have to deal with ISP's that are run by brain-dead morons. First a short background. I subscribed to both the newbie and expert lists at the beginning of May. On the 22nd of my ISP, a cable company who shall remain anonymous at this time, changed their mail systems from one outsourcing provider to another. The change over went smoothly, except I could no longer post to the Mandrake mailing lists. I contacted my ISP and explained the problem. It has been nearly two months and they still can not figure it out, even after I forwarded a e-mail from Charles Davant (Thanks Charles) @ Mandrake to them explaining that the reason I could not post was because my ISP does not have a reverse DNS entry setup for their smtp server. During my last conversation with their tech support, I was told they could not make that change because it might cause a problem for their other customers! I don't even want to tell you what my reaction to that statement was. I was about to give up and resign myself to only being able to read the mailing lists, when I decided to see if I could find an alternate mail service that offers pop3 services which I could use for the Mandrake mailing lists. A quick search on GOOGLE led me to www.myrealbox.com. It is a FREE mail service that supports POP3,IMAP and Web based mail with no advertising of any kind. It took me less than 5 minutes to setup an account and resubscribe to both lists using the myrealbox account. A quick addition to my Evolution configuration and I can now post. I don't feel like a second class citizen anymore!!! So if you can't post or have an ISP run by morons, check out them out.
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