Re: Thoughts based on two recent threads (Greylist and DBL).

On 25/05/05 16:45 -0700, Robin Lynn Frank wrote:
> Bob Poortinga wrote:
> > Robin Lynn Frank <rlfrank@paradigm-omega.com> writes:
> >
> >
> >>Anyone who blocks all dynamic space to avoid spam is just too lazy to
> >>do it right!
> >
> >
> > Let me state a corollary: Anyone who runs a direct outbound mail server
> > from dynamic space is just too lazy (or too cheap) to do it right!
> >
> > Either use your ISP's server to smarthost or pay someone to smarthost
> > for you. It's not expensive and it comes with lots of benefits.
> >
> It also has one major disadvantage. You can not log the delivery to the
> receiving server. Paying for services I do not need makes no sense to
> me, but I'll spare you the lecture on why recurring costs are bad.

Basic issue: If you want to send email directly to remote MXes, send it
via a host on a static IP. How you get the IP is up to you.

Devdas Bhagat