[CentOS] drop manitu.net

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Thu Aug 11 18:59:27 UTC 2011


On 8/11/2011 1:16 PM, Always Learning wrote:
>
>> Let me know when they get back to you. I'll look for your email sometime
>> around the time when you move and change providers.
>
> You can not change the world on your own, even a little bit, without
> some help. Help from mass 'Internet connections' ISP staff is often
> dependent on not very intelligent people being able to understand your
> problem and then having the ability to forward-on your concerns to a
> more skilled person.

And it's fairly safe to assume that every IP range that permits 
uncontrolled customers _will_ have spam-forwarding viruses present. 
It's even likely on a slightly out of date CentOS box although I thought 
the botnets valued linux hosts more as coordinating nodes to distribute 
the workload.

> Your task can be onerous and arduous and it will consume your ever
> decreasing free-time.
>
> Be pragmatic. Accept partial defeat. Get an alternative email
> arrangement and you may become more happier.
>
> Incidentally as you run your own mail via Bluehost are you actually
> affected, at the moment, by manitu because, presumably, you can send-out
> by BH ?

The quick fix normally is to relay through the upstream ISP's mailer, 
although those sometimes are blacklisted too.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com




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