Gmail was Re: [ILUG] Best Email Server to Use

[Kae Verens]

Michael Armbrecht wrote:
>> if you did that, then soon enough, it would be impossible for anyone with a
>> DHCP'd IP address (everyone in Eircom, Digiweb, Perlico, etc) to send email,
>> as it's virtually certain that someone in each DHCP pool has a compromised
>> computer, and sooner or later, that IP will shift off to some other innocent
>> person who will then be unable to send email because they will be branded a
>> spammer.
>>     
>
> Which is pretty much already the case. I can't send emails from
> neither eircom nor
> IOL/EsatBT to some companies because they're rejected or deleted -- because some
> infected zombies in these networks send spam and therefore these IP ranges are
> blacklisted.
>
>   
are you sending directly, as in from an SMTP server on your machine, or 
are you sending via the Eircom/IOL/Esat SMTP gateways? my own experience 
is that when you send from your own SMTP server, you might be 
blacklisted, but the ISP machines are usually not.

adding your IP address to the gmail email headers would probably have 
the same effect as if you were sending from your own SMTP server.

Kae