and either put your mail server there or just proxy through it. As soon
as it's provisioned and you get the information on it do a search for
your shiny new IP address in all the spam servers, because you don't
know who had it before you or what they did with it. I've had hosting
companies try giving me IP ranges that they had just taken away from a
box for TOS/SPAM.
Depending on how much crazy stuff you're doing when you receive an
email, any really cheap VPS should work. If you shop around you can
probably find something in a region whose spam history or laws best fit
any extra concerns you have.
--Jason
On 10/03/2011 11:59 AM, adam bultman wrote:
> Don't host mail on a dynamic IP.
>
> My mail servers will most certainly block you if you're on the PBL,
> that's for sure.
>
>
> If you had any concept of the amount of mail that is sent via dynamic
> ranges, you'd understand. From what I have found, GCI and ACS don't
> really 'care' if the dynamic users send unauthenticated email to the
> world; and as a result, those types of PBL entries exist.
>
> Granted, trying to convince 50,000 users that they should use a
> centralized server as their relay, and to use SMTP AUTH is a huge pain.
>
> (Perhaps GCI and ACS have transparent mail proxies I don't know about?
> But I still have to whitelist their netblocks. GCI, ACS folks: I'm not
> bagging on you at all - but if you want to correct me, please make your
> correction in the form of a flame.)
>
>
>
>
> On 10/03/2011 11:50 AM, Christopher Howard wrote:
>> Currently I am running an e-mail server out of my apartment. I like
>> running my own e-mail server because it gives me more control, and for
>> the educational experience. But the only lame thing is that some other
>> mail servers refuse to receive my e-mails because I use dynamic dns and
>> thus my e-mail address is part of the PBL:
>>
>> http://www.spamhaus.org/pbl/
>>
>> I could get a static IP and then request the address be removed from the
>> list. But that would be lame because ACS charges something like $30 a
>> month for a static IP.
>>
>> Are there any other options I might be overlooking here to deal with
>> this problem?
>>
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