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Date:      Tue, 28 Jan 2003 16:46:38 -0800
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
To:        Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr>
Cc:        advocacy@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 5.0 PR is not very good...
Message-ID:  <3E37246E.B3A4A111@mindspring.com>
References:  <20030128175303.C31123@papagena.rockefeller.edu>

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Rahul Siddharthan wrote: 
> Terry Lambert wrote:
> > So I relay my outbound email from my "Mindspring" address through
> > an "EarthLink" SMTP relay server.
> >
> > And the PR email is rejected, because some moron decided that the
> > email address domain name has to match the relay server domain
> > name.
> 
> Is this very recent (ie, since Jan 11 this year)?

No, it's been doing it for a very long time.


> I'm an earthlink customer too.  I use my @online.fr email address
> because the spammers already know that address.
> 
> I have submitted PRs via send-pr, relayed through the earthlink SMTP
> server (or similar setups), with no problem.  The most recent was
> ports/46985 on Jan 11.
> 
> (I assume you mean your PR was rejected by the FreeBSD server, not by
> Earthlink, otherwise your regular mail wouldn't get through either.)

Your mail server over there is probably not on the send-pr
blacklist that it's using.

-- Terry

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