From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 18 15:10:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from athserv.otenet.gr (athserv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2922414A12 for ; Mon, 18 Oct 1999 15:10:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keramida@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a010.otenet.gr [195.167.115.10]) by athserv.otenet.gr (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id BAA29120 for ; Tue, 19 Oct 1999 01:10:16 +0300 (EET DST) Received: (qmail 5015 invoked by uid 1001); 18 Oct 1999 13:12:07 -0000 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mailing list not References: From: Giorgos Keramidas Date: 18 Oct 1999 16:12:07 +0300 In-Reply-To: Jonathan Chen's message of "Mon, 18 Oct 1999 09:34:01 +1300 (NZDT)" Message-ID: <86so38rexk.fsf@localhost.hell.gr> Lines: 32 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.45/XEmacs 21.1 - "20 Minutes to Nikko" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jonathan Chen 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] > > ... 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, "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