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by codexon 4833 days ago
I hate spam as much as anyone but blacklists have gotten out of hand.

I rented a server, and when I decided to use it for sending emails, I found out the IPs were blacklisted. I tried appealing to Microsoft and they claimed the IP was blacklisted after I rented it. This was ridiculous since I had just installed Postfix for a few days and barely sent any emails out.

So I decided to relay all my emails to another server and haven't had any problems with it for a year except now I am stuck with a server with blacklisted IPs.

Some messages still randomly get blocked by Hotmail while Gmail happily accepts them. This whole email delivery problem is a mess and the fact that people are paying to have someone else send their emails is proof of how bad Email is failing.