Hill Ruyter wrote: > Hi > > Not trying to have a fight > Just found the suggestion that one needed a "trick DNS" to offer respectable > email was a little over the top > > We are not all top flight sysadmins with brains the size of planets > > Nev >
If you pass Exim's reverse_host_lookup test, you are off to as good as start as can be had. Proper HELO/FQDN match added to that is even better. IF THEN your sender is inappropriately affectionate to the dog w/r header format, message includes a virus, or other per-user, not per-server rudeness, the result won't be 'coz your server didn't belong to the right rowing club. We can't be bothered to check any of the mnemonic-of-the month brainstorms. As with the crocodile who starved to death on a diet of politicians - there's precious little substance there once you shake the shit out of them. Feel free to send me a test message 'direct' if you aren't sure you have it all in place and doing the expected. Bill > > > -----Original Message----- > From: W B Hacker [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: 15 May 2009 16:46 > To: Hill Ruyter > Subject: Re: [exim] Sender callout verification on BATV signed addresses > > Hill Ruyter wrote: >> --On 15 May 2009 13:11:02 +0100 Hill Ruyter <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>>> What I seem to see here is an assumption that the only people who should >>>> be allowed to run an email server are those doing it as a business and if >>>> you want to run a little linux box with a couple of domains with about 3 >>>> accounts each you are left out in the cold. >>> There are hosting services, ISPs and DNS providers that will allow you to >>> do this stuff. It's a specialist requirement, so you should not expect >>> every ISP to provide the services that you need to run a respectable email >>> service. >> I run my own email server at home on an Ubuntu box >> I have done many things to adhere to commonly accepted standards >> I have a static IP >> My ISP has set my PTR for me >> I just set up SPF records following advice here. >> I have taken care not to have my server as an open relay >> I have secured my box >> But I do not have the ability, time or, the desire to pay for; (specialist >> requirements) which will come with; (specialist prices) >> >> Does this mean I am not respectable? >> Why should I penalised? >> Is this geek elitism and techno snobbery? >> >> Hill >> >> > > Hill, > > Don't seek a fight where none was offered. > > I don't personally see vlaue in spf, dk, dkim, BATV, > > > > -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
