Hi all I have a VPS running OpenBSD 7.6 that I set up to manage a mailing list (yes I know mailchimp has a free tier but I'd rather my recipients and I not be a product) only to find that my emails end up in spam if they get sent at all. It turned out that their AS got added to a prominent spam list and they won't pay to get it taken down (which is probably fair - individual IPs I can understand, but at the AS level it reeks of a protection racket) and as the only other alternative is to wait a week for the entry to expire, they have two options to offer me:
- use ipv6 only; or - ask the recipient not to use that blacklist (the latter in this case is Google so may the odds be ever in favour of whoever tries that...) So let's go with the option I might actually be able to do - can I force smtpd to send via ipv6? I can't see anything in public documentation that suggests it's possible. There was once apparently the ability to do this with 'limit mta inet6' but it seems to have been removed in 6.4. Plan C is to use my OpenBSD-running VM for a wireguard tunnel and run those services at home (which I have the infrastructure for but don't want to rely on always having access to a static IP on a home connection - this being Australia and all) but it'll mean having to migrate my Zentyal VM to my Proxmox server and it was a pain getting it where it is from Vultr in the first place... -- Aaron Mason - Programmer, open source addict I've taken my software vows - for beta or for worse
