On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 05:10:18PM +1300, Skip Parker wrote:
The issue we have is that while we have done ALL we can to adhere to good internet etiquette, we seem to be loosing the battle to send legitimate emails to our customers. In the last month ive been discussing these issues with many ISP's and the range of responses are "Sure heres how you can make it work" to "Go Away we dont want to deal with this".
So rather than trying to re-invent the wheel, why not give some details on the type of problems you're experiencing so that we can help fix them as a community? Clearly there's a number of email senders, both ISPs and otherwise, that are currently having problems with Yahoo/Xtra, but what problems have you had with other ISP/companies? Feel free to leave out the names if you want - but what is the real problem(s) you're trying to solve?
- New Zealand Based List Servers Only
Ho hum.. the moment you make is country specific you significantly limit yourself as to who will be interested in implementing it. Can you really seen Yahoo (Xtra) using the whitelist? What about all the other domains which are hosted overseas (in particular the Hotmails/Gmail/etc's of the world), or even the bigger players in NZ. The far better solution is simply to make an effort to keep your IP address and mail healthy. Stay off the various blacklists (www.robtex.com/rbl.html, or www.completewhois.com/rbl_lookup.htm if it ever comes back to life). Keep your reputation up (www.senderbase.org, www.trustedsource.org), make sure Reverse DNS is setup, public SFP records (if possible/relevent), sign messages with DK/DKIM, etc, etc. Scott