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?
Probably. Unless you can update your reverse DNS, then it's still going to look like a dial-up address.
Do I have to go for a static IP and a registered domain
name? That sounds kind of expensive!
It's not necessarily expensive. I use a small ISP and pay them CAD$4/month for static IP. It's PPPoE based mind you, which almost doesn't make sense to some people ;) My reverse DNS doesn't match my domain or anything, but I haven't encountered any problems. I think going with a small ISP is better too as big players like Yahoo are less likely to know if the IP address is in a dynamic or dial-up range. Oh, and not being the US properly improves that further...
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're getting your protocols wrong. You always send via SMTP. POP is for pickup at your leisure. Most SMTP agents allow you to specify a smarthost. I recommend you try this: instruct your SMTP MTA to relay via your ISPs SMTP server. It might solve your problem. This won't affect incoming mail as that is controlled by your MX record (although if you haven't registered a domain then you're probably using POP3, perhaps via fetchmail). If you use a smarthost, you will lose visibility in your logs as to whether your recipients' MX received the messages and when, and perhaps what the real error was if it bounces.
Malc
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