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] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
