Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 11:02:50 -0800 From: Gary Kline <kline@toxic.magnesium.net> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: [MAILER-DAEMON@magnesium.net: failure notice] Message-ID: <20021211190250.GC95108@toxic.magnesium.net> In-Reply-To: <20021211181351.GC13878@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20021211173426.GA93074@toxic.magnesium.net> <20021211174228.GB13878@dan.emsphone.com> <20021211175838.GA95108@toxic.magnesium.net> <20021211181351.GC13878@dan.emsphone.com>
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Dan Nelson (dnelson@allantgroup.com) wrote: > In the last episode (Dec 11), Gary Kline said: > > The thing is that when I used mail.magnesium.net, I got > > the same 553 errror. Also, from > > > > http://www.dnsreport.com/tools/dnsreport.ch?domain=thought.org > > > > I got a FAIL on the postmaster auth entry. > > Same reason. The FAIL on that page is because mail.speakeasy.net does > not think it's a MX for thought.org. > > > I did check out speakeasy.net's web site on this; it mumbled > > one like about using sendmail's SASL. --Sorry, but this is > > seriously out f my league!! Anybody know what 'SASL' is? > > (I just tweaked my /etc/mail/sendmail.cf file. It says:: > > That's talking about sending outgoing mail, and is to prevent spammers > from using speakeasy's servers without authentication. Your problem is > with incoming mail, and requiring anyone that wants to send you mail to > use SASL is ridiculous. > > Pester Speakeasy and make sure they know you're talking about MXes for > incoming mail. Large ISPs usually have different machines dedicated to > incoming vs outgoing mail. > I googled around and added the SASL lines to my ns1*.mc file. But sendmail gives me warnings. I understand Speakeasy's issues and policy. Agree that for me, yes, this is ridiculous. .... I'm running FBSD-4.3 on my DNS server; 4.7 on "tao.thought.org"; before I start bugging Seakeasy, it might be easier to figure out where the SASL stuff is. Ideas? gary -- Gary Kline Seattle FBSD Users' Group (seafug) | kline@magnesium.net Thought Unlimited Org | kline@thought.org http://www.magnesium.net/~kline To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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