On 20/10/03 10:45 +0530, Payal Rathod wrote: > Great to hear from you. Are you/someone else doing "helo filtering" for > this list as well? I had a *hell* lot of time for delivering last mail > for 2-3 days till a friend gave me smtp access to his company's server. I certainly am. > On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 05:19:23AM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > > Several ISPs - especially in the united states - do one or more of : > > How are you doign it for India (if this is not violating any ND you may > have signed). Just the basic idea and not details. Globally.
> > 1. Port 25 outbound blocks on their dialup pool so that outbound smtp > > traffic is forced through their smtp servers > > Talk about freedom. > Is there any workaround for such ISPs? I mean if I want to use my SMTP > only then....? So setup the ISP SMTP server as a relayhost/smarthost/whatever funny term qmail uses. An ISP blocking port 25 should not insist on you using their domain while using their mailserver. > > 2. Submitting their dynamic IP ranges to the MAPS DUL, easynet.nl > > dynablock and other such lists of dynamic IP ranges. > > Ok, fair enough. > > > 3. Consistent reverse dns with a pattern like "ppp" or "dialup" in it > > for their dialup pools > > Not getting exactly what you mean but got the general idea of this. dig -x 203.109.68.23 Thats Digital Remote Access Server. dig -x 203.109.69.23 Analog RAS. >From my logs (line wrapped): Oct 20 19:21:38 evita postfix/smtpd[6379]: disconnect from PPP-219-65-132-242.bng.vsnl.net.in[219.65.132.242] > > >If you are doing this, then still my point mentioned in my essay stands. > > >Most of the small companies in India are using dial-up and those people > > >cannot send you mails. > > > > Sure they can, if they set their mailserver to send out through a static > > IP mailserver ... > > aaaaahhh!!! where will a poor girl :) like me get a static mailserver. My ISP > which is *EXCELLENT* does not provide smtp access. So, just for mailing > clients of srs I have to change my ISP??? Be Indian. I thought you were a RICH sysadmin? > I have though of a few solutions to this "helo filtering" (TM) problem, s/though/thought/ <snip> > Thanks for the help and if you have any spam please send it to srs. He > loves it. I think he gets enough. <kidding> /me sets up a REDIRECT on all mail submitted via 127.0.0.1:25 to [EMAIL PROTECTED] </kidding> (Yes, my ISP POP3 accounts only get spam :)) Devdas Bhagat ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email sponsored by: Enterprise Linux Forum Conference & Expo The Event For Linux Datacenter Solutions & Strategies in The Enterprise Linux in the Boardroom; in the Front Office; & in the Server Room http://www.enterpriselinuxforum.com _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
