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. -- en oeccget g mtcaa f.a.n.finch v spdlkishrhtewe y dot@dotat.at eatp o v eiti i d. fanf@covalent.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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