From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 2 23: 0:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from infofreebsd.org (dsl-64-193-145-21.telocity.com [64.193.145.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BED7237B401 for ; Sun, 2 Sep 2001 23:00:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 67377 invoked by uid 1015); 3 Sep 2001 05:33:35 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 3 Sep 2001 05:33:35 -0000 Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2001 01:33:35 -0400 (EDT) From: herlan To: Stephen Hurd Cc: Subject: RE: can't posting in freebsd-* In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20010903013312.M66745-100000@infofreebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 2 Sep 2001, Stephen Hurd wrote: > > Quite possibly, your mail server doesn't have a valid reverse lookup record. > If this is the case, you'll have the same problem I did originally - You can > read, but not post... you whould get a message in 24 hours or so saying > something like: Mail Undeliverable and containing lines that look like: > > >>> RCPT To: > <<< 450 Client host rejected: cannot find your hostname, [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] > ... Deferred: 450 Client host rejected: cannot find > your hostname, [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] i did't recieve any error and i can send to mailto:Majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG and ricieve a welcome email from each mailing list and if i try nslookup from my server: bash-2.04$ nslookup infofreebsd.org Server: reslv2a.chi.telocity.net Address: 216.227.0.36 Name: infofreebsd.org Address: 64.193.145.21 and i use my own mail server with qmail > > There's only three solutions to this: > 1) Get on your ISPs back... annoy the hell out of them until they fix it. > 2) Switch ISPs to one that DOES have a reverse-lookup for their mail server > > OR (And this is the trickiest option) > > 3) If they have a valid reverse lookup for their users, but none for the > mail server (Don't laugh, I've seen this) set up your own SMTP server using > sendmail, and send all your mail through it. If your using the FreeBSD > system as a NAT box or something, you'll have to allow it to relay from your > local network... and ONLY your local network. If you allow anyone else to > relay, they will. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > Best regards, Herlan B http://www.infofreebsd.org FreeBSD Users Group in Indonesia To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message