[Gllug] How can I make sure my email is not treated as spam?

[LinuxWorld999]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Adrian McMenamin" <Adrian at mcmen.demon.co.uk>
To: <gllug at linux.co.uk>
Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2003 1:59 PM
Subject: [Gllug] How can I make sure my email is not treated as spam?


> I have set up a web server (apache running on a Red Hat 7.3 box) that
> allows a small number of people to log in and send emails on to various
> addresses - not a commercial or spamming thing (about 5 or 6 emails a
> day to various addresses at the moment) - but I am having problems.
>
> First of all the box (which has a static IP address and sits on the end
> of leased line, but has no domain assigned to it) - was just
> boxname.localhost.
>
> This caused various mail relays to bounce the mail as boxname.localhost
> was not a "real" domain.
>
> I then changed the name of the box to mailrelay.myorganisation.org.uk
> (names have been changed, but myorganisation.org.uk is a real domain,
> but mailrelay is not a "real" subdomain).
>
> This seemed to work for many of the mail relays that were previously
> bouncing the emails, but not all.
>
> What can I do to fix this?
>
<snip>

One simplistic way would be to setup a yahoo or another http based mail  and
use this as your mail address / domain.  This worked on a test mail server I
setup at home.

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