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From: "Blake Dunlap" <ikiris@gmail.com>
I don't know why this should be especially surprising. They probably use RBL's, etc, just like everybody else and I doubt the RBL cares whether the source is earthlink vs. earthlink's address space.
Wouldn't it be easier to just set your linux box to use submission and one of earthlink's mail servers, just like any other client ought to be doing these days?
We do the same thing, if you aren't an authenticated client, you're just another unknown mail server on the internet, so the same deliverability rules apply with DNS etc. You do not get special treatment just because you are on one of our ip blocks as far as inbound MX submission via SMTP.
Got it; yeah, maybe that shouldn't have been a surprise. I guess I'll have to smart host her to their internal outbound server; that workaround works for me with RoadRunner, it ought to work on EL as well. Nothing to see here; move along. Thanks, -- jra