Re: [ietf-smtp] own mail server: DNS / static IP / no bad reputation?

[Ned Freed <[e-mail]>]

> [please use only the list for replies, thanks.]

> John R Levine wrote:
> > The place I use is called Tektonic, http://tektonic.net/

> Thanks, unfortunately they don't support the OS I'm using.
> But now that you wrote about "VPS" I know what to look for
> (not simply "hosting" - that showed mostly "web hosting")

> > (mostly) transparent outbound mail filtering so their reputation seems

> If STARTTLS is used, they shouldn't be able to do it, unless they
> mess with SMTP (or much worse: with TLS), right?

Add to that the reality that VPS solutions are far from immune to the
same sort of blocking issues you get from a cloud provider.

Several of the people I know using VPS solutions to send small amounts of
legitimate commercial email have been hit by IP reputation blocks recently. In
at least two cases all it took was a single noisy neighbor sending a bit too
much mail without jumping through the necessary hoops. AFAICT no spam,
phishing, etc. was involved.

Keith may have expressed himself badly, but like it or not, he has a point.
Operating a mail system is increasingly difficult, and a lot of that difficulty
is associated with limits and restrictions imposed by large providers in a
fairly arbitrary way.

And no, I don't have a solution to this problem. But claiming the problem
doesn't exist, or that VPS solutions or whatever are the necessary magic, isn't
helpful.

Now if you'll excuse me, I need to get back to figuring how the limit changes
one of the MSPs has just implemented so the small amount of opt-in mailing list
mail I send to them isn't unnecessarily delayed.

				Ned