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White, Gray, or Black Lists ...
Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, May 19 2013 @ 05:05 PM EDT
Spamhaus might be OK for people who choose not to do their own filtering.
Last place I worked at had a self generated whitelist. Everything else went
onto a graylist. I think there's a fancy name for the procedure where mail
from unknown hosts gets bounced, then accepted on a retry six hours later.
It relies on most spambots dropping bounces to /dev/null.

It doesn't stop mail from hijacked hosts, nor the more skilful forgeries.

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I'm surprised you don't have problems sending email
Authored by: Wol on Sunday, May 19 2013 @ 05:47 PM EDT
Well actually, nearly EVERYBODY sends email from a dynamic IP address, so if it
was tricky there'd be screams all over the place.

Most people, however, upload their email to their ISP's mail server, which
hopefully only accepts email from (or for) its local network. The ISP's server
then forwards it on to its destination.

The alternative is (yuck!!!) to use a browser to send email, using a hammer to
drive screws :-( although I know that's a popular thing to do...

And then some people (like me nowadays) use an independent mailbox provider, so
I have to AUTH into their server before I can send.

Cheers,
Wol

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