Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 20:21:02 -0400 (EDT) From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: alan17@wizard.net (McConnell) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, alan17@saruman.wizard.net Subject: Re: Inability to subscribe to this E-list Message-ID: <199907230021.UAA12244@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <199907222057.QAA28914@saruman.wizard.net> from McConnell at "Jul 22, 99 04:57:21 pm"
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McConnell wrote,
>
> I run Linux on my home machine. It has a name which has not been
> registered anywhere. [snip]
> When I try to send E-mail to your E-list, it is rejected. The
> message reported back to my machine, according to qmail, is:
> "Connected to 204.216.27.18 but my name was rejected. Host not
> found".
You said it right there. The mailhub does not accept mail from
machines that do not reverse-lookup.
> Evidently, your machine, hub.FreeBSD.ORG, is extremely severe about
> what E-mail it accepts. Must that be so?
Yep. It stops quite a few spammers.
[snip]
> P.S. To get this to you, I have had to telnet into my wizard.net
> shell account, and re-edit this message, forwarded back up to wizard.
> This is ridiculous!
Doesn't your ISP supply you with a SMTP host? Just relay your mail
through their machine[0]. The relay will reverse-lookup, and you'll be
all set.
[0] If you used sendmail rather than qmail, I'd just say to setup
your machine as a nullclient.
--
Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com
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