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Date:      Sat, 14 Oct 2000 16:08:57 +0000
From:      Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
To:        Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>
Cc:        Bill Fumerola <billf@chimesnet.com>, John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>, Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, Doug Barton <DougB@gorean.org>, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <jruigrok@via-net-works.nl>, Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com>, John Hay <jhay@icomtek.csir.co.za>, Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/etc inetd.conf
Message-ID:  <20001014160857.E22336@hand.dotat.at>
In-Reply-To: <200010121857.e9CIvAi30686@earth.backplane.com>
References:  <20001012141830.B37870@jade.chc-chimes.com> <XFMail.001012113211.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <20001012143936.D37870@jade.chc-chimes.com> <200010121857.e9CIvAi30686@earth.backplane.com>

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Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> wrote:
>
>    Second, running sendmail -q30m or -bd or in any manner at all without
>    first setting it up isn't going to work very well... if you enable 
>    sendmail by default, without any real setup, it will not have access
>    to the entire internet due to the strict rules checking that occurs on
>    many SMTP servers these days.  Before you can run sendmail on a platform
>    you need to do one of two things:
>
>    (A) setup a smarthost 

Useful if you are on a dial-up, otherwise unnecessary.

>    (B) make sure the machine's hostname, forward, AND reverse DNS is setup
>	100% properly.  One mistake and a good bit of the internet will
>	bounce your email.

If you haven't done that already then you deserve to lose in a lot
more ways than just bouncing mail.

Tony.
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