Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 18:57:28 +0000 From: Scott Mitchell <scott.mitchell@mail.com> To: Chip Morton <tech_info@threespace.com> Cc: FreeBSD Chat <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: blocked mail Message-ID: <20020224185728.C324@localhost> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20020224124913.018d1128@threespace.com>; from tech_info@threespace.com on Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 12:50:11PM -0500 References: <4.3.2.7.2.20020224124913.018d1128@threespace.com>
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On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 12:50:11PM -0500, Chip Morton wrote: > My e-mail to this list is not being delivered when I use my ISPs SMTP > server. How can I find out why and what can I do about it? Take a look in /var/log/maillog for the offending messages; there's usually some indication of why a message was rejected. Alternatively, your ISPs mail server may be broken -- it's IP address may not have any reverse DNS set up, or it may be claiming to have a hostname that doesn't match the reverse lookup on its address, or the address might be in a blackhole list. AFAIK, freebsd.org's mailserver rejects all of these cases as potential spam. You might get a bounce message back eventually after the ISP has repeatedly failed to deliver the message. Moan at your ISP and persuade them to do things properly... HTH, Scott -- =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" scott.mitchell@mail.com | 0xAA775B8B | -- Anon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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