On Sunday, 20 March 2005 at 18:50:18 -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 07:41:00PM -0500, Matt Emmerton wrote: > >>> What do you have to edit? If you're in Comcast dynamic space, why not >>> just smarthost through their servers? >> >> Not referring to Comcast, but for Rogers which is also blacklisted by >> a lot of people: their "smart" host likes to delay or randomly drop >> outbound mail making it useless for reliable email delivery, and they >> require you to send mail from a rogers.com address, which means you >> can't use personal domains (like this one). >> >> Kris >> >> ----------- reply separator ------------- >> >> Actually, what you say is not true for Rogers. I've been sending mail >> directly out of my Rogers-hosted machine for almost a year now, without >> going through their "smart" hosts. This was one of the reasons I switched >> to Rogers from Sympatico -- Sympatico locked down port 25 which forced me to >> use their crappy mail servers, and I was easily losing 50% of my mail. > > I don't understand what your point is...I didn't say rogers forced you > to use their smarthost, only that lots of people (e.g. lots of people > in europe and russia, in my experience) blacklist your emails when you > don't.
Indeed. I do, and it blocks an amazing amount of spam. I do have the courtesy to say "please use your ISP's mail server" in the error reply. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers.
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