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From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc inetd.conf
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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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