Tom Nielsen wrote:
You are not going to win that battle. It is their server and their rules. You are on the blocklist for the same reason that I am, there are way too many unsecured machines on the Verizon DSL network that are being abused to send spam, etc. The easiest way to get around the blocks is to configure your outgoing mail to go through Verizon's mail server. I don't remember the exact steps, but I was able to configure it using YaST2 without any issues. The other way around the blocklist is to pay Verizon for a business class connection and have then configure DNS and rDNS (The reverse DNS is actually the most important one) to point to the neuro-logic.com domain.
Paul - I'm running Verizon Business DSL and the business class dsl does not come with email options. I was sending email through my webhost, but just setup an email server and now shoot it out from here rather than going through my webhost. So neuro-logic.com points to my webhosting company. So I'm not sure if what you have said can be done???
I couldn't tell you who to work with, but again to get around it, you would have to get DNS and rDNS configured so that the IP address of the DSL line is associated with a hostname in the neuro-logic.com domain. Since you don't have email from Verizon, the other thing is to setup the mail server to relay through the web hosting mail server. I don't know postfix well enough, but in sendmail, you can configure it to send mail for certain domains through a third party mail server. So, in this specific case, you could configure the local mail server to send all mail destined for linuxmail.org through your web hosts mail server.
The funny part of this whole thing is that the only place that has rejected my email is linuxmail.org, my personal account. I work with huge companies all over the world as well as intelligence organizations and the little company out of the Netherlands is blocking me from my own personal account. ???? At least I got them to remove me. I find the real interesting part is that they don't check to see if someone is a spammer first, but just block a whole range of IPs then make people argue their case.
That is because linuxmail.org is hosted and supported by Outblaze. Outblaze is one of the most vehemently anti-spam email companies around and use several blocklists in blocking the incoming spam. The easynet.nl blocklist that had you listed is just one of those lists. Again, though the reason that your IP was on the list is because of the sheer amounts of unsecured machines on the Verizon DSL network (my messages file(s) are huge from the firewall entries from compromised boxes on Verizon DSL trying to infect me with the latest virus, send me popup spam, portscanning, ...) I don't have a business class DSL line and I am on a dynamic IP address and I am not supposed to be running servers on my machine. The DNS entry for my IP address looks practically identical to the entry for your IP address. Since it is impossible to distingish my IP address from yours, it is easier to block the whole network and then whitelist the good addresses as the complaints come in. I can also tell you that the attitude that was displayed to you comes from listening to many other people complain that they are interfering with their god given right to send email. That is not true, being able to use the Internet is not a right, it is a priviledge that has been granted and funded by many different companies and governments. The Internet is a collection of private networks that have agreed to inter-connect with one another, and those networks are private property. Therefore, as I said, it is their server/network and their rules. If they don't want to accept email or network traffic from you, that is their choice to make not mine, yours, or anyone elses. As an aside, you are probably blocked from sending email to AOL directly as well. They are another company that has decided that they don't want email that has originated from a DSL or Cable connection. Regards, Paul