----- Original Message ----- From: "BruceG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Colin Watson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 8:39 AM Subject: Re: Yahoo says I'm a Spam-o-Rama (via DynDNS)
> > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Colin Watson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Debian-User" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 8:07 AM > Subject: Re: Yahoo says I'm a Spam-o-Rama (via DynDNS) > > > > On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 07:04:31AM -0500, BruceG wrote: > > > Okay, I'm happily e-mailing away to friends and family, and lo and > behold > > > (fancy talk for "wha wha whaat????") - I find out that Yahoo pops me > into > > > the Spam block list. I know this was talked about recently (wasn't > it?) - > > > and had something to do with dynamic DNS users. > > > > > > Questions are: if I go for a registered domain name and still keep > Dynamic > > > service (I'm behind a DSL router and do not have a static IP) will I > still > > > be in spam jail? Do I have to go for a static IP and a registered domain > > > name? That sounds kind of expensive! > > > > > > Right now I figure I'll send out through my ISP POP mail when mailing > > > important stuff I don't want in Spam lists. I'd rather just SMTP out my > > > server, though (like this e-mail). > > > > You should always send outgoing mail through your ISP's smarthost, or > > some other similar machine. There are good reasons for this besides > > avoiding dial-up spam lists; your ISP's smarthost is more reliably > > connected than you are, and can therefore handle SMTP retries more > > properly. > > > > There is no need for a static IP to do this properly, and dynamic DNS is > > irrelevant. The issue is that you're trying to send mail directly from a > > dynamic *IP address*. People on dynamic IP addresses should always relay > > mail through some other machine, such as their ISP's mail server. This > > takes about a minute to configure and after that you won't notice it. > > > > Cheers, > > > > -- > > Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Thanks, that helps out. I found info from my LUG on configuring Sendmail to > use my ISPs smarthost [mail.bellsouth.net]. How do I translate that into > Exim3 land? Can I simply do a dpkg-reconfigure to go through the steps, and > would it be exim I'm reconfiguring (I tried "dpkg-reconfigure > exim --priority low" but didn't get anything back. > (sorry Colin, I sent this directly to you and should have kept it on the list) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]