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Date:	Sun, 23 Feb 2003 17:13:39 PST8
From:	"J. R. Fox" <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: The Email Server 2-Step

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Peter wrote:

> -- 2. Earthlink wrote back to Steven Levine (who uses them) that they
> block incoming email for a whole bunch of reasons. One of those reasons
> is if the IP address for the sender's domain and the actual IP address
> which the message is coming from don't match. That's my case for sure;
> I use Verizon (DSL) or Cox (cable) to send my email but my domain name
> isn't hosted by either of them and thus has a different IP address.
> Apparently Earthlink does a reverse lookup on the sender's domain and
> blocks the email (this supposedly stops a lot of spam from entering
> Earthlink's system). I have to do some testing with this problem to see
> if I can come up with a workaround;

Yep, that's the situation I keep running into, and not just for EarthLink,
while I'm out of town and being a guest on someone else's rig for broadband
'Net & mail access (even though I have my own Profiles there, with my own
account info). Was under the impression that your method circumvented this,
but apparently it doesn't. If you find another way, please let us know
about it. (But I'm not about to keep a dedicated mail server box running 24
/ 7 at home or anywhere else, just to have this.) Right now, I find no
other alternative besides dropping down to a dial-up connection for each
account, in order to send out mail or replies. That mostly works, but even
a few of those outbound messages have bounced, for reasons not really clear
to me.

Jordan

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