[ale] email hosting questions

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Comcast business class doesn't block ports including 25 and 80...


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On Jan 16, 2010, at 19:29, David Tomaschik <david at tuxteam.com> wrote:

> Paul Cartwright wrote:
>> On Sat January 16 2010, David Tomaschik wrote:
>>
>>> 2) An ISP that will let you set the reverse dns for your IP
>>>
>> probably will if I ask.
>>> 3) Set up an SPF record for that IP for email for your domain(s) [1]
>>
>> not sure.. atnex said:
>> When you configure your e-mail, make the HELO (or EHLO)
>> mail.pcartwright.com
>> And I'll set the PTR of 208.65.88.107 to be mail.pcartwright.com
>>
>> I think this is done..
>>
> PTR = Reverse DNS record.  So they've already done it for you.  SPF
> is a
> TXT record in your DNS for pcartwright.com.  The fact that atnex is
> supporting you doing this is encouraging.
>>
>>> There are certain netblocks more likely to be flagged as spam than
>>> others.  Some rulesets for filters like SpamAssassin include
>>> Comcast/AT&T/Other big Telco/Cable network netblocks in their
>>> filters.
>>>
>>
>> got rid of AT&T a few years back when they blocked email to my
>> domain for 2
>> weeks. I gave up calling/emailing and just switched to Atlantic
>> Nexus:)
>>
>>
> Quite lucky.  Comcast is my only option (or Clear, I suppose...).
>
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