On Aug 11, 2011, at 10:56 AM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Sorry, mouse ran away there with the last post with no comments.
Craig White wrote:
On Aug 11, 2011, at 4:51 AM, mark wrote:
Always Learning wrote:
On Wed, 2011-08-10 at 21:36 -0500, John R. Dennison wrote:
<snip> >> You don't seem to understand the issue. My hosting provider has >> literally hundreds of thousands of domains. The email gets funneled for >> all, I assume, except those paying for co-location, through their >> heavy-duty mailhost. manitu sees spam coming from that mailhost, and >> blocks EVERY EMAIL FROM EVERY DOMAIN that goes through it, even though >> none of the rest of us are running windows or spamming.... > ---- > Not sure who it is that doesn't understand the issues. > > If an RBL has designated a particular SMTP server or range of SMTP servers > as a source for spam then the solution lies with those that own the SMTP > servers to satisfy the RBL and get the blocks removed. > > Yes, some RBL's are more aggressive than others but the notion that it > blocks EVERY EMAIL FROM EVERY DOMAIN is exactly what RBL's are supposed to > do since they don't worry at all about which e-mail or which domain at > all... only SMTP servers from a particular IP Address or a range of IP > Addresses.
And that's *EXACTLY* what I'm saying is the wrong thing to do. Dunno where you live, but go ahead, for whoever provides 'Net access to your home: call them up, or email them, and tell them to contact manitu, and to request that manitu put them on a whitelist.
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.
---- hmmm... I just got AT&T admins to fix their blocks a few weeks ago but I did have to be persistent and insistent.
you do what you have to do and if you start with a defeated attitude...
Craig