Long ago, I tried mailing directly direct-to-mx style, but that of course didn't work, e.g., http://www.spamhaus.org/pbl/query/PBL109625 So only 5% of my mail got through.
So then I tried mailing through The ISP Here, Hinet.Net's SMTP server, but of course Hinet.Net has a bad name. So only 50% of my mail got through. So, upon people like you guy's recommendation, I (asked my mom to buy) me a dreamhost.com account. However I can't shake off the Original Sin of Being in Taiwan. All people with Taiwan Colored Skin will have points deducted, no matter what. We use the Telephone Company's ISP. >>>>> "J" == Jailer-Daemon <b...@connect.ie> writes: J> On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 11:30:28AM -0500, <msher...@projectile.ca> wrote: >> >> He's using an SMTP relay J> He is, but it isn't a Hinet relay. At least not in the URL he gave. J> It should be possible to relay out from your own ISP and not score J> anything on SARE rules, without having to pay extra for "clean" SMTP J> relaying (which is what seems to be happening here). Now you guys are saying I should go back to using Hinet.Net's SMTP, even though my mom has already paid a 5 year contract for me at Dreamhost. >> The rule is buggy -- it's looking at all the >> received headers, even the ones before the relay. Yes, and what may seem like a mere 1.6 points is causing me to have to request the whole spam threshold of that mailing list http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.eeepc/2850/raw be lowered just for me, just because my mail is being tagged with a stupid looking "mail Made in Taiwan, penalty 1.666 points" that I can't do anything about, thanks to you guys and no one else. Also, I wonder why lots of my mail doesn't seem to get through to people... and no, I don't want to bother them with various test messages. Perhaps it is all again due to your sloppy rules? Actually, I could figure out some underhanded methods to get around being detected as living in a Undesirable Country, but if ever detected, I would surely get penalized even more points.
