On Wednesday 06 April 2005 16:23, Marc Powell wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:squirrelmail- > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [TRF]LisXit Team > > RaisingFire/Xtreme Team Coders > > Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 9:09 AM > > To: squirrelmail-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > Subject: Re: [SM-USERS] (no subject) > > [lots of talk about being blacklisted for sending SMTP directly from > dynamic IP's.] > > > > > this is real lame > > > > really, why did sorbs came up with such idea > > > > > > It's actually quite a good idea. It stops lots of people who would > > > otherwise use dynamically acquired IP addresses (harder to trace, > > etc) > > > > from spamming the world. Real world mail servers need to be in a > > > > reliable > > > > > place in order to function properly, at least w/out a LOT of > > hacking, so > > > > it turns out to be a pretty good assumption that incoming > > connections > > > from > > > > > servers on dynamic IPs are spambots doing their thing. > > > > Well not for @home, > > I know that they saves up to 20 last used ip's with the start and end > > date... > > also, if you get a new ip the older ip will still reslove to the > > current > > > hostname, and this is for about 2 weeks till 1 month > > so @home should not block their own customers > > > > but here another example, i replyed your message and i got it... > > because > > > squirrelmail is using the database of sorbs, > > well not that i gonna say that it sucks and you don't have to use it, > > because it's one of the possibilities to eliminate spam > > but people like me, using a mailserver for my own, and some for my > > friends > > > (trusted ofcourse, not everybody gets a mail address at my domain) > > > > I'm going to contact @home for delisting me, if not then i will go to > > another > > provider. > > The blocks/blacklists on dynamic IP's are entirely appropriate in this > day and age. There is an industry accepted and promoted solution to your > problem and that is to use your ISP's mail server as an outgoing mail > relay. You can either use it via SMTP directly from your applications > (i.e. SM) or as a smarthost for the mail server you are running. Every > ISP I know of worth a grain of salt allows their customers to use the > ISP's mail servers to send mail. That's why they are there. If you do > that I'll be most if not all of your problems go away. If you are an > @home customer, they are almost certainly allowing you to relay SMTP > through them. If you're blocked because you're on a blacklist that they > subscribe to then it's your fault for not doing your research before > setting up your mail server. > > -- > Marc > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide > Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. > Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_ide95&alloc_id396&op=Click > -- > squirrelmail-users mailing list > Posting Guidelines: > http://squirrelmail.org/wiki/wiki.php?MailingListPostingGuidelines List > Address: squirrelmail-users@lists.sourceforge.net > List Archives: > http://news.gmane.org/thread.php?group=gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user List > Archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id)95 List > Info: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
yeah i did, but they don't allow open relay, they only allow closed, which i am running so i thought it would be fine, even i didn't hear about such lists now i do -- Regards, LisXit At RaisingFire.NET Member of: Team RaisingFire and Xtreme Team Coders ======================================== RaisingFire.NET - Your portal for server protections ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click -- squirrelmail-users mailing list Posting Guidelines: http://squirrelmail.org/wiki/wiki.php?MailingListPostingGuidelines List Address: squirrelmail-users@lists.sourceforge.net List Archives: http://news.gmane.org/thread.php?group=gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user List Archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=2995 List Info: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
