My suggestion to resolve the whole issue: forward mail through your ISP's
mailserver or go and buy a cheap VPS.

Amazon EC2 micro instances work fine for the purpose, and it is possible
with some hackery to install OpenBSD on them.

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On Tue, Aug 8, 2017 at 5:25 PM, Walter Alejandro Iglesias <w...@roquesor.com>
wrote:

> In article <20170808121343.46a8ddb9@fir.internal> you wrote:
> > Hi Walter:
> >
> > On Sun, 6 Aug 2017 19:45:22 +0200 Walter Alejandro Iglesias wrote:
> > > What determines those "ranges", who regulates that?
> >
> > Some ISPs submit IP blocks to various blacklists. e.g:
> > https://www.Spamhaus.Org/faq/section/Spamhaus%20PBL#242
> > http://www.Sorbs.Net/faq/dul.shtml
> >
> > Asking your ISP to exclude your addresses might help.
>
>
> I sent an email to my ISP, they don't even know about this lists. :-)
>
> Besides, I sent an email to spamhaus.org suggesting them not to include
> static IPs in their PBL list by default as they do.
>
>
> I'll take this chance to share my thinking with everyone here.
>
> I understand that given everyone uses gmail, hotmail or mail provided by
> some multinational hosting service they assume mail coming from
> residential connections cannot be other thing but spam sent from hacked
> machines.  But someone paying for a static IP in a residential
> connection is the opposite case.  When you have to deal with thousands
> of users you resort to any trick you find on the Internet and start to
> blindly blacklist all; this is a big servers problem.  And the more
> users you have to deal with the worse.  On the contrary, from my part, I
> have just a pair of personal addresses, so it's not a big deal for me to
> audit my server and use more sane, less harmful and, overall, more
> effective measures to filter spam and to prevent spam be sent from my
> machine.  And I think this is the direction everyone should point to
> instead of resting day after day more and more on big companies for
> everything.  In general, everyone should tend to decentralize instead of
> monopolize.  The real problem is the passive attitude most people assume
> in the use of the Internet (and life in general but I don't want to bore
> you with cheap philosophy. :-))
>
>
> >
> > Regards,
>
>
> Thank you for your advice.
>
>

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