On Wed, 31 Aug 2016 08:27:51 +0200 deloptes <delop...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > > >> About reliability - I have not seen recently undelivered mails > >> (except bounces between gmain and yahoo . > > > > Lucky you! > > > > Lisi > > Luck is something, that is out of scope in terms of software. Use > authorized SMTP servers. Who authorises them, if not the owner of the domain? Should our governments expect to be paid for email server licences? > This means you can not install on your linux > box an smtp server, send an email and expect it to be delivered. I have done so, for about fifteen years. I like it that way. > If > it is your provider, change it or talk to them. It is not common that > messages are rated as spam, when they come out from legal MX records. The MX record is not involved in sending. Many companies outsource their anti-spamming, or for other reasons use completely different sending and receiving servers. What you need are complementary domain host A record and IP address PTR records, pointing to each other, along with an ISP which doesn't host bulk emailers and is otherwise willing to keep itself off blacklists. > As I said DMARC initiative is going on at the moment (and since > couple of years) and it will affect the mailing in positive way I > hope. The main problem with anything like that is that many people have relatively complex email arrangements, e.g. forwarding from a number of email addresses to another, and these tend to get broken by security measures. A couple of years ago my ISP, who had provided email services based on sub-domains, outsourced them to an Exchange-based system using the MS SPF system. I don't use the provided sub-domain, so it didn't involve me, but there was a lot of trouble about it, and eventually the ISP grudgingly provided another pair of MX records for a SMTP server which did not implement this system. Email is still a useful messaging protocol, it is somewhat broken, but the cure absolutely must not be worse than the disease, or we'll all end up using Facebook. -- Joe
