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It's even likely on a slightly out of date CentOS box although I thought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.
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Les Mikesell
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