Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 10:49:47 +0200 From: Florent Thoumie <flz@xbsd.org> To: Danny Pansters <danny@ricin.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to get send-pr/porttools working when on a cable (dsl)provider link Message-ID: <4247C52B.2060509@xbsd.org> In-Reply-To: <200503280500.15465.danny@ricin.com> References: <200503280500.15465.danny@ricin.com>
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Danny Pansters a écrit : > Hi all, > > Just migrated all my stuff to a new machine and having troubles sending any > mail to the freebsd lists and inparticular with send-pr. I have a cable modem > connected to my gateway which connects to a gbit switch through which the > other pcs connect. The cable provider uses dhcp. I get my IP ok and my > hostname (sent through dhclient also, otherwise logging on doesn't work) is > danny@cp464173-a.dbsch1.nb.home.nl. I have set up pf to do nat and filtering. > It's not a firewall problem. > > I'm having problems getting sendmail (from my desktp -- a client behind the > gateway) to be eligible to send mail to the freebsd servers, particularly > send-pr. > > I already set my isp's smtp as smart relay in freensd.mc and did make, but now > my FQDN hostname is not considered cosher (helo)... its desktop.homenet, a > local name. > > How do I solve this? > > (also...contrast this inconvenience with every non-subscribed spammer being > able to spam us if she has a colo set up properly...) You might want to use ssmtp. Since you're using your ISP's smtp server to send mail, there should be no problem if you don't have a FQDN hostname. -- Florent Thoumie flz@xbsd.org
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