Mail, returned mail, blacklisted ISPS and port selection

I live in Spain and my e-mail, especially to US friends and colleagues, is increasingly being returned to me, even though I have been e-mailing them for years, because it is now being identified as spam. E-mail to family, friends and colleagues in Spain and other countries is rarely treated this way, I suspect because US ISPs are more pro-active in blacklisting spammers.
Error 526, listed on the returned e-mails, is identified by AT&T as being a spam problem. The site at spamhaus.org identifies a whole IP range, within which the IP assigned to me (I'm not sure whether it is assigned to my computer or router or my ISP's outgoing mail server(s)) as a spam source, even though I send no spam at all.
I use Mail 2.1.3 as part of OS 10.4.11.
I have spoken to my ISP at huge length, and expense, about this and they say they can do nothing to get their IP range removed from the blacklist, although various websites make it clear that ISPs can do this, if they want to. The real problem is that there is very little choice of ISPs in Spain, and the ISPs are all as badly run as each other and not one of them is remotely service-oriented. So changing my ISP will not achieve anything. The secondary problem is that I appear to know more about ports, and mail programs than the 'technical' staff I am talking to at my ISP, so they just say they do not know how to or cannot help me.
Two possible solutions occur to me.
1) I could ask for a fixed IP address, paying a little more each month. Would such an address apply to my computer, my router or all 4 or 5 computers, wired or wireless, on my LAN? Would a fixed IP address normally fall outside the range of dynamic IP (address) numbers).
2) The standard smtp port used by Mail for outgoing e-mail is port 25. Authentication, by my ISP, is by username and password. However, I have read that port 25 is filtered by receiving ISPs for spam, in other words port 25 does not do a 'full' authentication job. In contrast, port 587 is supposed to do a 'full' authentication job, and e-mail proceeding from that to other ISPs is supposedly not filtered. So I have tried sending mail out through port 587, but this doesn't work. Do I have to turn SSL on? Do I need to open port 587 in my router's firewall? And does my ISP have to make some adjustment at their end? They say they cannot and do not have to, and that I can send e-mail through any port I choose to???????
I have looked to see where port 25 is currently open, but there is no mention of Mail or port 25 in any of my router settings, so other than specifying in Mail preferences that the smtp server port number is 25, or 587, I don't know where else to look.
All help would be deeply appreciated.

1. That likely won't make a difference at all, any IP the ISP gives you will be in the banned range.
2. None of that matters at all to the "ban", different port usage is strivkly dependant on your ISP's set up on their end.
I think your only solution is getting something like a free gMail account. After you sign up...
http://email.about.com/od/macosxmailtips/qt/et_gmailosxmail.htm

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Using Mail 3.6 on Leopard 10.5.7. I was setting up new MobileMe accounts for myself and my wife. She previously had mail checking a gmail account. After the mobileme account was set up on mail, I unchecked the enable account box in the gmail account settings. When I saw the inbox was gone, I re-enabled the account and saw the inbox with the list of emails return. What I did not realize until the following day is that despite the inbox list of messages (index?) being repopulated, the attached messages were not present. So, after reading some other threads, I chose to rebuild that mailbox. After that, the list of emails is now also gone and I can't find them in the trash or junk folders either.
Is there any chance for recovery of these messages?

First pause the mirroring and shutdown the servers.
If the server network address specifies a fully qualified domain name and Ports are opened, I don't think there will
be a problem.
--Prashanth

Mail, returned mail, blacklisted ISPS and port selection

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