rogers cabal and blacklisting

[Herb Richter]

On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Tom Wright wrote:

> So all of a sudden I find my emails bouncing. A little investigation and
> it appears that SORBS identifies my IP as a dynamic one (quite right it
> is, although it hasnt changed fro at least 3 months) so is red flagging
> (or black holing) all emails sent from my server. Now I use the SORBS
> blacklists in my configuration and they have been a great help in cutting
> down spam but why are they so anti dynamic ip's? I've checked carefully
> and its not like my machine is an open relay.
> In addition reading the SOBS policy on dynamic ip's it seems likely that
> rogers has entered it's own dynamic ip address ranges into the SORBS
> database. This is a sneaky and underhand way of stopping me from running
> my own mail server. I would like to point out to rogers I was actually
> saving them processor cycles and thus money by handling my own email.
> Now it seems that I need to relay all my email through the rogers servers
> which if i remember correctly (must admit i havent checked this recently)
> not only require smtp authentication (irritating since one of my clients
> dosnt support it) but also require me to use a rogers.com addy as the from
> address.

	I had this same problem until I reconfigured sendmail on one
machine on my network to forward outgoing mail to the rogers smtp host.
This did require authentication but does not require a rogers.com address.
The different mail reader clients then route their mail to the local
configured machine.

> So who should I be pissed at here?
> Rogers - for making my life difficult
> SORBS - for being a little over eager
> Myself - for trying to get clever

	Blame the damn spammers.

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        Herb Richter  <hgr-FjoMob2a1F7QT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org>
        Toronto, Ontario
        http://PartsAndService.com
        http://PartsAndService.ca


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