[nylug-talk] Mail servers on dynamic IP addresses soon to be shunned nearly everywhere.

[Michael B Allen]

On Sat, 03 Feb 2007 15:09:15 -0500
Ron Guerin <rguerin at nylug.org> wrote:

> Just a heads-up for our listmembers....
> 
> MAAWG is the Messaging Anti Abuse Working Group.  It seems that if
> you're running a mail server on a dynamic IP address (and no one cares
> if your dynamic address never changes, that's completely irrelevant),
> and not using a smarthost, your mail isn't going to be going anywhere,

FYI, if you're on a dynamic IP there's a good chance a large amount of
your mail is being dropped by spam filters since they know who's dynamic.

If you care that much about your email, get a VPS with root and a fixed
IP for $20/mo.

Mike