From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 10 2: 8:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from boris.netgate.net (boris2.netgate.net [204.145.147.155]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 567A04323 for ; Thu, 10 Feb 2000 02:08:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (wellsian@localhost) by boris.netgate.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id CAA84296; Thu, 10 Feb 2000 02:05:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wellsian@caffeine.com) Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 02:05:51 -0800 (PST) From: wellsian X-Sender: wellsian@boris.netgate.net To: Ben Smithurst Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: email sendmail - read this one - ignore the first! In-Reply-To: <20000210012804.C421@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm curious, does sending your mail through your ISPs server really cause problems, or is it just a pain to figure out what's going on when this bites you? Thanks, -Dave On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Ben Smithurst wrote: > David Banning wrote: > > > I sent mail using sendmail to questions@freebsd.org and got the email returned with part of the error message below. > > It seems freeBSD thinks I am a junk mail sender! > > It refers me to a web page http://mail-abuse.org/dul/ which says that the problem is that my > > local SMTP server name setting is not the same as my ISP's. > > Looking through the error message, its like like my ISP is being called tracker@localhost when it is actually > > tracker@worldy.com > > The reason is that certain people think dialup users shouldn't be > allowed to send mail direct, and that they must use their ISP's > smarthost. I think this is complete bullshit, but I guess it's necessary > to reduce spam a bit. Anyway, either find an ISP who can give you a > static IP not in DUL, or reconfigure your MTA (i.e. sendmail) to relay > all mail via your ISP's smarthost. > > Please don't send mail in HTML format either, thanks. > > -- > Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message