[svlug] My escape from Kmail is featured in the 2/2012 issue of Linux Productivity Magazine

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Akkana Peck (akkana at shallowsky.com):

> Even when I handled my incoming mail on the home server, I still
> wasn't able to send out from that server -- I had to use a mail relay
> from some ISP or other, because too many sites automatically blacklist
> all SBC DSL IPs, even static IPs that have been unchanged for many
> years.

Yeah, I'm not the least bit surprised to hear that you cannot
successfully use _SBC_ DSL for that purpose.  (Let's face it:  That's
the lowest-end of all such offerings.  Sadly, as you say, sometimes it's 
been the only DSL in a particular poorly served area.)

A likely reason for your problem is that your 'static' IP was allocated
from the middle of a designated dial-up or otherwise dynamic block, and 
there's a long tradition of RBLs listing such netblocks going back to
MAPS's 'DUL' (dial-up list) RBL of the 1990s.

Anyway, if I knew a friend who had such a problem -- and I stress
-friend-, not just some person on a mailing list -- I could be easily
persuaded to let that person's MTA use mine as an outbound relay, at
which point that friend could add my server's IP to his or her DNS as an
MX, a part of the SPF entry, etc.

> True enough -- we probably could have shopped around for another DSL
> provider, hoping to find one not subject to blacklists.

Well, you happened to be on the worst possible DSL choice.  (My opinion;
yours for a small fee and waiver of reverse-engineering rights.)