Date: 18 Oct 1999 16:12:07 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mailing list not Message-ID: <86so38rexk.fsf@localhost.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: Jonathan Chen's message of "Mon, 18 Oct 1999 09:34:01 %2B1300 (NZDT)" References: <Pine.SC5.4.10.9910180932080.16048-100000@kiwi.logisticsoftware.co.nz>
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Jonathan Chen <jonc@logisticsoftware.co.nz> writes: > On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, Edward Elhauge wrote: > > > I'm getting the following message when I try to post to the > > freebsd-hackers list from uncanny.net. > > > > >>> EHLO ns2.uncanny.net > > <<< 450 Cannot find your hostname, [140.174.20.7] > > <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>... Deferred: 450 Cannot find your > > hostname, [140.174.20.7] > > The mailing lists require that your IP address has a reverse-ptr > entry. Get your ISP admins to fix this. One solution that has worked for me fine until now with qmail is to use something like the following in /var/qmail/control/smtproutes: .my.funny.local.domain: :mail.my.isp.com which makes sure that any mail non-local gets forwarded to my ISP's mail gateway, which does accept everything without reverse lookup. The mailing list manager then sees mail.my.isp.com as the originating host which does both forward and reverse lookups quite well. However, setting the Reply-to: header in all email is then kind of mandatory, unless you don't care about bounced messages -- but it's a nice thing to know which messages failed to reach their destination, so I did it too. -- Giorgos Keramidas, <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> "That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears." [Geoffrey Chaucer, 1328-1400] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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