Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 22:45:04 -0500 (CDT) From: Daniel Ortmann <ortmann@sparc.isl.net> To: j_mini@efn.org Cc: ahd@kew.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: (over)zealous mail bouncing Message-ID: <199707260345.WAA00390@watcher.isl.net> In-Reply-To: <19970724002446.59369@micron.efn.org> from Jonathan Mini at "Jul 24, 97 00:24:46 am"
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> What I'm saying is that my hostname doesn't have a DNS entry in > the "outside world" and therefore sending a message from my machine > is automatically an invalid host. THe only real option I have is > to spoof the information that sendmail sends out, ask my ISP for > a addressless DNS entry (make a DNS entry that has no A entry) or > change my hostname to something valid. > Although pictures of naming myself cyberpromo.com for a week come > to mind, I don't think "stealing" someone else's host name is a > very valid solution. I would persue getting a DNS entry from my > ISP, except that I have more than one ISP. (makes life harder, > although still theoretially possible. All I need is one valid > hostname I can pretend I am) I'd do that -- except that I am going > to be moving into student housing in about a month or so, and will > actually have a public IP address and DNS entry for my machine on > that network, and (knowing my ISP's) it would probably take a month > to get that DNS entry, it's kinda of pointless. > I'm just a little annoyed at people who insist of having the sending > machine call itself a valid hostname, just to cut down on spam. I have no real domain, but the following is enough to get my mail through ... and allow people to respond to me. I really don't exactly understand what everyone is talking about ... but I hope it doesn't break my mailing capabilities. :-) VERSIONID(`$Id: watcher.mc,v 1.4 1997/04/11 09:26:43 root Exp $') OSTYPE(bsd4.4)dnl DOMAIN(watcher.isl.net)dnl FEATURE(redirect)dnl FEATURE(allmasquerade)dnl FEATURE(masquerade_envelope)dnl FEATURE(nodns)dnl LOCAL_USER(ortmann)dnl LOCAL_USER(root)dnl MAILER(local)dnl MAILER(smtp)dnl -- Daniel Ortmann 507.288.7732 (h) ortmann@isl.net 2414 30 av NW, #D 507.253.6795 (w) ortmann@vnet.ibm.com Rochester, MN 55901 "PERL: The Swiss Army Chainsaw"
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