Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 14:29:46 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ebay Phishing Message-ID: <20050321035946.GH79501@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20050321025018.GA99877@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20050321001225.GA30997@xor.obsecurity.org> <01a701c52dae$bed8dd10$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> <20050321025018.GA99877@xor.obsecurity.org>
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--dMyqICaxQaaUjrCL Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Sunday, 20 March 2005 at 18:50:18 -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 07:41:00PM -0500, Matt Emmerton wrote: > >>> What do you have to edit? If you're in Comcast dynamic space, why not >>> just smarthost through their servers? >> >> Not referring to Comcast, but for Rogers which is also blacklisted by >> a lot of people: their "smart" host likes to delay or randomly drop >> outbound mail making it useless for reliable email delivery, and they >> require you to send mail from a rogers.com address, which means you >> can't use personal domains (like this one). >> >> Kris >> >> ----------- reply separator ------------- >> >> Actually, what you say is not true for Rogers. I've been sending mail >> directly out of my Rogers-hosted machine for almost a year now, without >> going through their "smart" hosts. This was one of the reasons I switched >> to Rogers from Sympatico -- Sympatico locked down port 25 which forced me to >> use their crappy mail servers, and I was easily losing 50% of my mail. > > I don't understand what your point is...I didn't say rogers forced you > to use their smarthost, only that lots of people (e.g. lots of people > in europe and russia, in my experience) blacklist your emails when you > don't. Indeed. I do, and it blocks an amazing amount of spam. I do have the courtesy to say "please use your ISP's mail server" in the error reply. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --dMyqICaxQaaUjrCL Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCPkayIubykFB6QiMRAlGpAKCTU5/own7Oo95jm7yXIwE2tfk+DwCeKTT1 3gogl/5BkZ4RwFRmS+dnpSs= =vyqE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --dMyqICaxQaaUjrCL--
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