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From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
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Subject: Re: who is "postmaster"? 
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thanks.. That's quite amazing..

On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Peter Wemm wrote:

> Julian Elischer wrote:
> > 
> > I've tried getting information about our (FreeBSD) mail
> > system by mailing to "postmaster" but no-one answers..
> > 
> > so, who IS the postmaster at the moment?
> > 
> > I have the .elischer.org domain set up at Netowrk solutions
> > with a contact address of "julian@freebsd.org"
> > however whenever I try change anything in the setup it 
> > sends an "Austhorize this" email to the registered
> > email address (julian@freebsd.org). However they
> > never turn up in my mailbox so I can't do anything
> > (like change the contact email address :-) to maintian
> > my domain.  Is freebsd.org throwing away mail from
> > network solutions? (are they blackhole'd?)
> 
> Would you believe me if I told you that Network Solutions dont know
> how to configure the DNS on their systems?
> 
> peter@hub[4:39pm]/etc/postfix-58# host opsmail.prod.netsol.com
> Host not found.
> 
> Anyway, I have added a "special" override to allow network solutions'
> misconfigured systems to send mail.
> 
> Cheers,
> -Peter
> --
> Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au
> "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5
> 
> 


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