Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 06:56:19 -0500 (EST) From: Ray Kohler <ataraxia@cox.net> To: ataraxia@cox.net, keramida@ceid.upatras.gr Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sendmail without (real) hostname? Message-ID: <200211071156.gA7BuJeJ009952@arkadia.nv.cox.net> In-Reply-To: <20021107034627.GA990@gray.sea.gr>
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> From keramida@ceid.upatras.gr Wed Nov 6 23:00:20 2002 > Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 05:46:27 +0200 > From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> > To: Ray Kohler <ataraxia@cox.net> > Subject: Re: sendmail without (real) hostname? > > On 2002-11-06 21:15, Ray Kohler <ataraxia@cox.net> wrote: > >Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > >>Funny. All ISPs that have a tiny sort of sense and respect for their > >>users that have dynamically allocated IP addresses will usually > >>provide at least one mail relay. If not for any other reason, to let > >>them send email to servers that refuse all messages from hosts whose > >>forward and reverse DNS lookups fail (a lot of the servers use this as > >>a form of antispam measure). > > > > It's a `no servers allowed' ISP. > > As long as you are not letting people relay mail through you, and only > use your ISPs mail gateway to relay your own mail to the world, you > are not a `server' as far as the ISP is concerned. Just a usual SMTP > client. They most certainly keep a mail gateway handy for their > users, since the most popular mail user agents in the Windows world > tend to fail miserably without one :) > Well, before I used your tip, the relay would fail because the `from:' part of the envelope was invalid, but now I suppose I ought to use the `smart host' feature since it ought to work. - @ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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