Avoid SMTP from IP pools. was Re: Appologies and one question

Forrest J. Cavalier III mibsoft at epix.net
Wed Aug 6 13:11:13 UTC 2003


"Boryan Yotov" <yotov at prosyst.com> wrote:

> Sorry for the double reply to "Readers.conf and auth access"
> but I've sent a mail reply to this mail half an hour ago and it
> was rejected from the rbl based mail filter on the inn mailing
> list.
> Actually the IP address which I'm sending from is from T-Online
> (German ISP provider) IP pool. I use this ISP when I'm at home
> and it's a bit inconvinient since no one could know which address
> should be assigned to it and whether it is in a RBL spam database
> :). I know It's my error when posting from such IP so excuse me
> again :) 
> 

Some spam blocking systems reject mail from IP addresses assigned
from user IP pools.  See http://www.mail-abuse.org/dul

By using the main SMTP relay provided by your ISP, you will not have
the problem.



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