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1. Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 23-Dec-2017 09:47:11 EST Bob Mottram
   Got my outgoing email proxying via my ISP again. Well, that wasn't a multi-hour faff around at all.
   
   The reason for doing that is because otherwise outgoing mail gets blocked by spamhaus.
   1. arunisaac (arunisaac@social.systemreboot.net)'s status on Saturday, 23-Dec-2017 10:51:29 EST arunisaac

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      You can use a VPN service (or set up your own on some VPS), and route your SMTP connections through it. That way, TLS encryption will keep the content of the mail confidential, yet you'll still get the benefits of static IP, reverse DNS, etc. This is better than using an outgoing SMTP relay (smarthost) because a smarthost can read all your mail.
      1. Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 23-Dec-2017 11:10:35 EST Bob Mottram

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         @arunisaac I think I'd trust a VPN service even less than the ISP
         1. arunisaac (arunisaac@social.systemreboot.net)'s status on Saturday, 23-Dec-2017 13:13:42 EST arunisaac

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            The traffic you route through the VPN is TLS encrypted between your SMTP MTA and the remote SMTP MTA. So, the VPN service cannot decrypt the traffic.