Hello,
The latest message I sent to the list was blocked by the busybox.net MX because my IP was listed in the SpamHaus PBL - that means it is a dynamic address provided by my ISP, which it indeed is. Mail servers that reject mail based on a PBL listing basically enforce the use of the provider's SMTP server and disallow use of the customer's own SMTP server. I have my own SMTP server. It works, it has always worked, and if it doesn't work, I can fix it. I do not want to use my ISP's SMTP server for several reasons: - If at some point I want to encrypt my mail, I want it to be done between my server and the recipient's server, not between my server and my ISP's. I don't want to allow my ISP to read my mail. - My ISP is made of incompetent morons who have no idea what customer service is, how the Internet works or how to configure or scale a service. Every mail I send through them sits in their queue for several minutes. The previous mail I sent had this charming header in it: X-Greylist: delayed 00:06:59 by SQLgrey-1.7.6 (so it wasn't actually incompetence in this case, it was intentional disservice.) The PBL is part of a larger tendency to disempower individual users and put that power into the ISP's hands, which comes with a very unsavory smell of surveillance, breach of net neutrality, and also user infantilization and deresponsabilization. It's the first time I get a bounce based on a PBL listing, and the busybox.net MX is the first MX giving me such a bounce. I have to say it is a major disappointment coming from such a list. I noticed in the headers that the osuosl.org servers were actually hosting the list. So it looks like osuosl.org implements PBL blacklisting. It's the first time I send a mail to the Busybox list and it is rejected by PBL, so either the list hosting was switched to osuosl.org very recently, or they added the "feature" recently. Would it be envisionable to either switch hostings again, or persuade osuosl.org to roll this back (one can hope) ? I want to think that busybox.net people are technically savvy, responsible people who dislike this kind of disempowerment as much as I do, and that my plea will fall on listening, understanding ears. Thanks. (osuosl.org homepage: "The Open Source Lab is an organization working for the advancement of open source technologies." They forgot to mention "without consideration as to how they are applied.") -- Laurent _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list busybox@busybox.net http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox