On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 00:00:51 +0000, Phil Pennock wrote: > > I'm not sure if I'm special if I would like my mails to get delivered > > when my server is not doing anything wrong? > > Rent on a storefront in a well-policed clean part of town is higher than > rent on a back-alley where the streets are being reclaimed by the swamp. > > There is a reason for this. > > If your mail-server is sited in a swamp, you will have deliverability > issues, no matter how well run that one server is. No matter how cheap > the swamp is or how many people are slumming it in shacks there.
From a sender perspective, it isn't clear that it is a swamp, and that's the main problem, in my opinion. Hetzner is a very large german hoster, and it isn't recognisable for a small domain sysadmin, that he/she shouldn't choose them. Unlike Spamhaus or any other public RBL, you can't easily check what netblock is blacklisted at hotmail (and others). Transparency is important, and makes it possible for senders to act, if they are listed. Also, it makes the recipients accountable for what they block. In other words: if Hetzner doesn't behave well according to accepted common rules, they should be publicly marked as such, so that it becomes a problem between Hetzner and Microsoft, and not the problem of small domain sysadmins that are collateral damage of the blacklisting. I'd also like to mention that even implementing mail authentication with SPF/DKIM/DMARC, didn't help me not being blocked by hotmail and live.com. Cheers David _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list [email protected] https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop
