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: >>>> Waste of time and resources. Learn how to properly handle email and >>>> none of this nonsense is necessary. >>> >>> Properly handling emails means, to me, not being too reliant on others >>> whose faults and omissions could impair your ability to send and >>> receive >>> mail ..... and not being a willing victim of spam ;-) >> >> 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. > > Craig > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos