From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 22 17:30:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16E9115677 for ; Thu, 22 Jul 1999 17:30:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) id UAA12244; Thu, 22 Jul 1999 20:21:02 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199907230021.UAA12244@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: Inability to subscribe to this E-list In-Reply-To: <199907222057.QAA28914@saruman.wizard.net> from McConnell at "Jul 22, 99 04:57:21 pm" To: alan17@wizard.net (McConnell) Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 20:21:02 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, alan17@saruman.wizard.net Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message