Date: Sat, 22 May 1999 05:32:51 EDT From: GBoydUK@aol.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, gavyb@coolmail.com, grog@lemis.com, majordomo@freebsd.org, owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, postmaster@ettnet.se, postmaster@lemis.com, postmaster@www.lemis.com, unreal@coolmail.com Subject: Polite Request Message-ID: <46cb1f8a.2477d3c3@aol.com>
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Dear Sirs I have received Unsolicited Bulk E-Mail (UBE) apparently from yourselves or from one of your direct or indirect customers. I don't like it and would ask for your cooperation to put a stop to it. Most of the UBE I receive looks dishonest to me. I am sure your company isn't like that but you would do well to avoid using or permitting the same methods as these "spammers" lest you be tarred with the same brush. Also, you may be aware that a growing number of ISPs are taking to blocking incoming mail from "spam" domains. I don't want that to happen because I might lose legitimate mail and you might be inconvenienced. --- Copy of offending material follows --- > Subj: Re: Name > Date: 22/05/99 08:52:29 GMT Daylight Time > From: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) > Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > To: tw@ettnet.se (Thomas Widlundh) > CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > > > [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] > > > > On Wednesday, 19 May 1999 at 11:28:06 +0200, Thomas Widlundh wrote: > > >> On Wednesday, 19 May 1999 at 0:12:29 +0200, Thomas Widlundh wrote: > > >>> Hi. > > >>> During installation, I was asked for a name of my domain (or the name of the > > >>> machine?). > > >>> The default was something like domain.mydomain.my***. > > >>> Of course I put in something else. > > >>> But when I now have managed (with some help of You) to > > >>> get FBSD and X to work, my machine is still called > > >>> mydomain.etc.etc. And I have searched a lot for how to change this, but... > > > > > > Greg Lehey wrote: > > >> People have told you how to change it. I haven't seen anybody explain > > >> what it means: this domain name is visible world-wide, and it needs to > > >> be registered. If you don't have a domain name, leave it empty. > > > > > > First I am to Thank every of You who gave me an answer. > > > > > Now Greg, I'm not shure what You are talking about. Do You mean a > > > name in the Internet like the name of my ISP, ettnet.se? > > > > Yes. That's the purpose of this name. > > > > > I mean the name which comes up during boot, just before the login > > > prompt. I'm to login to a machine with the name mydomain.my.etc. > > > > Correct. It's a domain name. It has no other meaning. > > > > > Erlier I had Caldera Base 1.1 on my HD. During installation I got > > > this question where I could change the name my.mydomain.etc to what > > > I wanted. I didn't know and understand it at the time so I typed > > > tw. The result was a very slow boot. The machine stopped at sendmail > > > for a long while and then continued. I was told that that was > > > because sendmail tried to find this name and wasn't pleased with my > > > tiny "tw". > > > > That's the top-level domain name for Taiwan :-) > > > > > It wanted a long name like this my.mydomain.etc with these two > > > periods. > > > > No, the reason is that it was trying to resolve the name. > > > > > Sendmail continued the boot after a time out. I changed the name to > > > a longer one, end sendmail was pleased and booted up fast. > > > > Well, what that means depends on what kind of name resolution you > > chose. I'm not really sure why you're running sendmail on a > > standalone machine. > > > > > In BSD i changed the name somewhere, can't recall where, and > > > sendmail is stopping like in Linux. Then, after a minute or so, > > > sendmail seems to time out and continue. > > > > That's right. It's the DNS lookup that times out. > > > > You're really looking in the wrong place here. If you don't want to > > run sendmail, you can disable it in /etc/rc.conf. If you are > > connecting to the net, you must get a valid name. sendmail uses it to > > determine things like return addresses, etc. > > > > Greg > > -- > > When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. > > For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html > > See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers > > finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > ----------------------- Headers -------------------------------- > Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> > Received: from rly-yg01.mx.aol.com (rly-yg01.mail.aol.com [172.18.147.1]) by air-yg03.mail.aol.com (v59.4) with SMTP; Sat, 22 May 1999 03:52:28 -0400 > Received: from coolmail.com ([207.36.192.105]) > by rly-yg01.mx.aol.com (8.8.8/8.8.5/AOL-4.0.0) > with SMTP id DAA09134 for <gboyduk@aol.com>; > Sat, 22 May 1999 03:52:28 -0400 (EDT) > Received: (qmail 13880 invoked by uid 501); 22 May 1999 07:04:52 -0000 > Delivered-To: gavyb@coolmail.com > Received: (qmail 13876 invoked by uid 501); 22 May 1999 07:04:51 -0000 > Received: from bftoemail12.bigfoot.com (208.156.39.212) > by 207.36.192.105 with SMTP; 22 May 1999 07:04:51 -0000 > Received: from coolmail.com ([207.36.192.105]) > by bftoemail2.bigfoot.com (Bigfoot Toe Mail v1.0 > with message handle 990522_035439_0_bftoemail2_smtp; > Sat, 22 May 1999 03:54:39 -0500 > for a47pq98@bigfoot.com > Received: (qmail 13870 invoked by uid 501); 22 May 1999 07:04:48 -0000 > Delivered-To: unreal@coolmail.com > Received: (qmail 13863 invoked by uid 501); 22 May 1999 07:04:48 -0000 > Received: from hub.freebsd.org (204.216.27.18) > by 207.36.192.105 with SMTP; 22 May 1999 07:04:48 -0000 > Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 538) > id 546E115208; Sat, 22 May 1999 00:51:48 -0700 (PDT) > Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) > by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP > id 3DFB21CD8A5; Sat, 22 May 1999 00:51:48 -0700 (PDT) > (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) > Received: by hub.freebsd.org (bulk_mailer v1.12); Sat, 22 May 1999 00:51:48 -0700 > Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) > by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DB9015000 > for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Sat, 22 May 1999 00:51:27 -0700 (PDT) > (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) > Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) > by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id RAA23886; > Sat, 22 May 1999 17:21:19 +0930 (CST) > Received: (from grog@localhost) > by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id RAA70137; > Sat, 22 May 1999 17:21:14 +0930 (CST) > Date: Sat, 22 May 1999 17:21:13 +0930 > From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> > To: Thomas Widlundh <tw@ettnet.se> > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Name > Message-ID: <19990522172113.B69879@freebie.lemis.com> > References: <99051900195703.00944@tw.oden.se> <19990519092757.I89091@freebie.lemis.com> <37428426.7DB72458@ettnet.se> > Mime-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i > In-Reply-To: <37428426.7DB72458@ettnet.se>; from Thomas Widlundh on Wed, May 19, 1999 at 11:28:06AM +0200 > WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog > X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF > Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia > Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 > Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 > Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 > Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Precedence: bulk > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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