Quoting Mark Sapiro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Paul has addressed your main question. I just want to add that you may > have problems trying to run Mailman from a server with a dynamic IP. > Earthlink.net for one will not accept your mail. The same is true for > some smaller ISPs. They don't like IPs with a 'generic' rDNS.
The biggest problem I had when I was doing a mailman list on my home server was that many sites would refuse email from IPs that were on their RBLs list of dynamic IPs. Yes, some of them look for a valid rDNS, but 99.99% of them were perfectly happy with an rDNS of "74-202-84-132.static.twtelecom.net" rather than "list.xcski.com". I tried to get around that by sending my outgoing mail through my ISP's outgoing mail server (using Postfix's "relayhost = [smtp-server.rochester.rr.com]"), but then my ISP wouuld decide I'd sent enough mail for that day and block me for 24 hours. For a while I was using a friend's box on a colo facility for a relayhost, but eventually I moved my lists to first a Virtual Private Server at linode.com, and then to my own colo box. -- Paul Tomblin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://blog.xcski.com/ IMAP is just not a very rich protocol. -- Steve Conn, Exchange Server product manager for Microsoft ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
