On 11 Jun 2002, John McQuillen wrote: > On Tue, 2002-06-11 at 22:18, David Fitch wrote: > > > more than that: most places (especially ISPs) will block mail sent > > directly from dialup dynamic IPs. It's a pain when you want to try > > running your own mailserver (as I did, and found out). > > As Mary says, you have to relay via your own ISP's mail server or > > else get a "proper" static IP. > > > It appears, however, that Telstra does not (yet) do this for their ADSL > users, nor does their dial-up address range appear in the DUL, as my > mail server seems to work just fine sending directly...
They do provide an SMTP server but it's a local address, something like smpt-server, which means you have to use their DNS - a pain. You could determine the IP address and simply use that but it might change without notice. Luckily as you mention, the adsl ranges haven't been rbl'ed yet but it's not really satisfactory. I want my IP address and I want it now - it's the main reason I continue to look around for an price competitive alternative. -=-=-==-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Graeme Robinson - Graenet consulting www.graenet.com - internet solutions -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==---=-=--=-=-= -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
