From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 27 13:55:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA07217 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 27 Feb 1998 13:55:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ewc-nt.ewc.edu (surf4282.se.mediaone.net [24.129.49.182]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA06754 for ; Fri, 27 Feb 1998 13:53:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from root@ewc-nt.ewc.edu) Received: (from root@localhost) by ewc-nt.ewc.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA00737; Fri, 27 Feb 1998 16:51:21 GMT (envelope-from root) Received: from eot.cs.uoregon.edu ([128.223.202.87]) by ewc-nt.ewc.edu (Netscape Mail Server v2.02) with ESMTP id AAA252 for ; Mon, 26 Jan 1998 20:12:36 -0500 Received: from hub.freebsd.org (hub.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.18]) by eot.cs.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA21355; Mon, 26 Jan 1998 17:14:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (daemon@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA06770; Mon, 26 Jan 1998 17:14:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: by hub.freebsd.org (bulk_mailer v1.6); Mon, 26 Jan 1998 17:10:15 -0800 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA05989 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 26 Jan 1998 17:10:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cedb.dpcsys.com (cedb.dpcsys.com [206.16.184.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA05961 for ; Mon, 26 Jan 1998 17:10:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@dpcsys.com) Received: from localhost (dan@localhost) by cedb.dpcsys.com (8.8.5/8.8.2) with SMTP id BAA09105; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 01:10:04 GMT Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 17:10:04 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Busarow To: alchemy@inconnect.com cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: e-mail w/dynamic IPs In-Reply-To: <19980126224306.3434.qmail@shell.inconnect.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Status: RO X-IMAP-Date: 26-Jan-1998 20:12:37 +0000 X-UID: 461 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 26 Jan 1998 alchemy@inconnect.com wrote: > The big problem I'm having is with only certain domains (FreeBSD.org is one of > them). Whenever I send e-mail to these domains, I always end up with a message > from Mailer-Daemon saying that magus.inconnect.com must resolve. Obviously, This is technique that is being used by many sites (including freebsd.org :) to limit spam. A very large chunk of incoming spam is from unresolvable hosts, and very little (to none) of such hosts are sending valid mail. That's the why. How to fix, in your sendmail.cf set DM to DMinconnect.com and your mail will go out without the offending magus in the FROM: Dan -- Dan Busarow 714 443 4172 DPC Systems / Beach.Net dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message