On Aug 11, 2011, at 10:56 AM, m.roth at 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