Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 16:28:32 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: David Banning <tracker@worldy.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: help with mail - sendmail Message-ID: <20000209162832.M17536@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <000801bf7358$e22d5040$931e05d1@tracker>; from tracker@worldy.com on Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 06:53:31PM -0500 References: <000801bf7358$e22d5040$931e05d1@tracker>
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* David Banning <tracker@worldy.com> [000209 16:21] 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! > I 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 or to use their phrasing; > Looking through the error message, it like like my ISP is being called tracker@localhost when it is actually > tracker@worldy.com > > I can I resolve the problem? The problem is that dialup users can spam directly into a mail server, this happens quite a bit so FreeBSD.org blocks it. You should be using your ISP's smtp server for outgoing mail, or a static address to contact the SMTP server. You should also wrap lines > 70 characters. -Alfred > > Thanks! Dave Banning > tracker@worldy.com > > Portion of My Actual Error Message follows; > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Final-Recipient: RFC822; questions@freebsd.org > > Action: failed > > Status: 5.5.0 > > Remote-MTA: DNS; builder.freebsd.org > > Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 554 Service unavailable; [209.5.30.112] blocked using dul.maps.vix.com, reason: See <URL:http://mail-abuse.org/dul/>; > > Last-Attempt-Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 02:18:35 GMT > > --CAA00506.950062716/worldy.com > > Content-Type: message/rfc822 > > Return-Path: <tracker> > > Received: (from tracker@localhost) > > by worldy.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA00504 > > for questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 9 Feb 2000 02:18:27 GMT > > (envelope-from tracker) > -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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