From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 6 18: 7:33 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFF8537B401 for ; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 18:07:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8936F43E3B for ; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 18:07:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from gray.sea.gr (patr530-b206.otenet.gr [212.205.244.214]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gA727L6S023879; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 04:07:22 +0200 (EET) Received: from gray.sea.gr (gray [127.0.0.1]) by gray.sea.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gA727KqV002536; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 04:07:20 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by gray.sea.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gA727Kh9002535; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 04:07:20 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 04:07:20 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Ray Kohler Cc: "Gary W. Swearingen" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail without (real) hostname? Message-ID: <20021107020720.GA2513@gray.sea.gr> References: <3DC9A3B4.1030303@cox.net> <3DC9C628.7080008@cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3DC9C628.7080008@cox.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 2002-11-06 20:47, Ray Kohler wrote: > Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > >If I understand the question, change the default /etc/mail/freebsd.mc: > > > > - dnl define(`SMART_HOST', `your.isp.mail.server') > > + define(`SMART_HOST', `yourISPsMailHost.yourISP.net') > > You do understand the question but this doesn't help me. My ISP is > refusing to relay for me just as well as any third-party > servers. We're not expected/intended to send mail that way so > they're not set up to do so. Funny. All ISPs that have a tiny sort of sense and respect for their users that have dynamically allocated IP addresses will usually provide at least one mail relay. If not for any other reason, to let them send email to servers that refuse all messages from hosts whose forward and reverse DNS lookups fail (a lot of the servers use this as a form of antispam measure). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message