[Klug-general] Mail Servers

[Martin A. Brooks]

On Fri, December 17, 2010 12:02, Peter Childs wrote:
> One used to be able to setup a Linux box to send E-Mail directly. using
Exim, Postfix or even sendmail.

http://hinterlands.org/wiki/index.php/DebianEximDovecotSquirrelmailSieve

>
> I stopped doing this about 5 years ago as more and more of the mail was
getting rejected due to the fixed ip I was using not being a "certified"
mail server.....

That sounds like you were sending to one of the freemail providers.  I'd
mostly ignore that.


>
> So what do I need to do to get the server "Certified" so that people
will accept mail off it.

Nothing special.  Matching forward and reverse will help a bit, as will
your host not having a generic dyndns name like dsl-1-2-3-4.yourisp.com.