Date: Wed, 8 Jul 1998 10:52:39 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" <ejs@bfd.com>, Neutrino Phantom <neutrino2000@hotmail.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: earthlink mail rejected by freebsd.org Message-ID: <19980708105239.U7792@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980707090322.6161O-100000@harlie.bfd.com>; from Eric J. Schwertfeger on Tue, Jul 07, 1998 at 09:07:47AM -0700 References: <19980707074453.1222.qmail@hotmail.com> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980707090322.6161O-100000@harlie.bfd.com>
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On Tuesday, 7 July 1998 at 9:07:47 -0700, Eric J. Schwertfeger wrote: > On Tue, 7 Jul 1998, Neutrino Phantom wrote: > >> I am unable to send any mail to a freebsd email address (mailing lists, >> majordomo, etc.) from my regular account with Earthlink >> (spectretouch@earthlink.net). Why? There is no connectivity problem on >> my end, because I know I can send mail to dozens of other ISP's. The >> following is the entire error email I receive. (Please send all replies >> to spectretouch@earthlink.net) > > two possibilities. Parts of Earthlink are in the RBL, but I don't think > that the freebsd mail servers use the RBL. The other is that your > earthlink dialup is rented from uunet. If you're using sendmail when you > connect to earthlink.net, you'll probably want to set a smarthost up in > your sendmail.cf to point to one of the earthlink smtp servers. It's simpler than that: FreeBSD.org blocks earthlink.net. End of story. Greg -- See complete headers for address 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
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