>>>>> "Alice" == Alice Wonder <al...@domblogger.net> writes:
Alice> On 2/7/19 2:52 PM, Bill Cole wrote: Alice> *snip* >> >> But your core point is valid: mailing from an AWS instance (or from >> anywhere on an IP with a programmatically derived PTR) in general is >> going to work poorly. There is too little accountability for abuse from >> the AWS IP pool for it to merit a default level of trust. >> Alice> Even with a proper reverse DNS if you use a VPS hosting service Alice> you have to deal with being blacklisted. Doesn't matter how Alice> long you have has the IP either. Amen! I'm in this boat right now, where Charter Spectrum in the US is blocking all Digital Ocean subnet blocks. Jerks. Alice> Someone spins up a VPS on same subnet and starts spamming and Alice> the entire subnet gets put on the blacklist because of showshoe Alice> spammers. Or worse... *some* lazy companies just block entire blocks of addresses. Alice> What you can do if you don't have the cash to buy your own Alice> subnet and use a VPS service, get three of them at different Alice> hosting locations and when one gets blacklisted, forward to one Alice> of the others to relay until you are removed from the blacklist Alice> (usually takes 24 hours because of cached DNS results) I'm starting to think I need to do this, but that would triple monthly cost. What I'm working on now is to just relay all email for @charter.net (and some other domains they run) via my charter.net account, since I use the jerks for my only possible internet at home. John
