Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 01:28:04 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> To: David Banning <tracker@worldy.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: email sendmail - read this one - ignore the first! Message-ID: <20000210012804.C421@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <001601bf7359$9594be20$931e05d1@tracker> References: <001601bf7359$9594be20$931e05d1@tracker>
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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
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