Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2008 22:08:49 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: pete <bsdpete@thechristies.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MTA advice ?? Message-ID: <20080824220849.951eac35.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <48B1B4FA.3050601@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <20080824140625.txre8xer6s0ggwww@webmail.secureserverdot.com> <48B1B4FA.3050601@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 20:22:34 +0100, Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote: > Running your own MTA is one of those sysadmin rights of passage. It's > unfortunate that the general levels of spam and other nastyness around > the net make it so much harder than it should be nowadays. Things that are nothing special, e. g. using your own mail server to deliver mails, is nearly impossible today if you're within an address range of a provider that gives you dynamic IPs. Spam and nastyness are usually problems generated by others (not by those who set up their own mailservers). So mails cannot be delivered. This hasn't been the situation in the past, but due to approx. 90% of the amount of mails being transferred being spam... you can imagine the reasons for this, but "the UNIX people" have to suffer from it, while the "don't care" crowd relies on someone else keeping the mail transfer infrastructure running... > Hmmm... Whether this is allowed or not depends very much on the ToS of > your supplier. Most big consumer ISPs won't let you run a mail server. > Most business ISPs will. There are suppliers who will host e-mail for > you, for a consideration. eg. www.gradwell.net -- a UK outfit so probably > not ideal for you, but a good example of what can be done. Another option is to forward outgoing mail to a MX of the ISP that is not on a blacklist. The sendmail service provides an easy means to achieve this: SMART_HOST. This does not cover incoming mail, of course. -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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