On 18 Aug 2007, Kai Schaetzl said: > Nix wrote on Sat, 18 Aug 2007 15:14:53 +0100: > >> > Worms and spam have made it impossible for users to use their own >> > personal mail servers. >> >> Really? Fascinating, I'm doing the impossible. I had no idea. > > You should not read that literally. You can, of course do that. But many > providers will not let you out and many won't let you in. You are lucky > that this IP isn't in any dynamic list yet, but it's got "adsl" in the > hostname, so many will block it that way. So, in general, if you want to > be sure that your mail gets accepted you have to use your smarthost. Or > you gamble. Your choice.
If anybody is really so stupid as to unconditionally block mail from hosts merely because of string matching in their rDNS, I'm not sure they *deserve* to see any email...
