On 8/11/2011 1:35 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Be pragmatic. Accept partial defeat. Get an alternative email arrangement and you may become more happier.
NO. I WILL *NOT* allow the goddamned spammers to block me from the 'Net, and I'm *not* willing to have them cost me my email, and go to somewhere else; certainly not to someone's suggestion of yahoo (and they aren't banned by manitu?)
Nobody is blocking _you_. The spam services just provide a listing that lets the recipients choose if they want to accept what you send from questionable locations.
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 ?
You misunderstand: I pay them for hosting. They provide the mailserver; it just comes from my domain on my virtual host on their servers. I don't run a business, so I'm not going to pay a *lot* more than $6US/mo to run my own mailserver....
Many/most ISP's provide an upstream SMTP relay as part of the service. If they do, configure it as your smart_host and it will fix the problem. If they don't, find some other relay service. Sending authenticated smtp though a free gmail account would work but they might check to see if the From: address matches the account (haven't tested that). The point is, that it will be easier to find a relay that someone trusts than to get the rest of the world to trust your random IP address in a block that anyone can get for $6/mo. Or, feel free to waste your time trying to change the world, but don't expect a lot of sympathy for the pain of beating your head on a wall, even if the wall doesn't belong there.