On Aug 11, 2011, at 10:56 AM, m.roth@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Sorry, mouse ran away there with the last post with no comments.
>
> 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:
> <snip>
>>> 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.
>
> And that's *EXACTLY* what I'm saying is the wrong thing to do. Dunno where
> you live, but go ahead, for whoever provides 'Net access to your home:
> call them up, or email them, and tell them to contact manitu, and to
> request that manitu put them on a whitelist.
>
> Let me know when they get back to you. I'll look for your email sometime
> around the time when you move and change providers.
----
hmmm... I just got AT&T admins to fix their blocks a few weeks ago but I did have to be persistent and insistent.
you do what you have to do and if you start with a defeated attitude...
Craig
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