From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 6 18:15:43 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 96EF937B404 for ; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 18:15:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from lakemtao03.cox.net (lakemtao03.cox.net [68.1.17.242]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7E1043E42 for ; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 18:15:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ataraxia@cox.net) Received: from cox.net ([68.98.181.29]) by lakemtao03.cox.net (InterMail vM.5.01.04.05 201-253-122-122-105-20011231) with ESMTP id <20021107021540.BXPZ16428.lakemtao03.cox.net@cox.net>; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 21:15:40 -0500 Message-ID: <3DC9CCCC.2020200@cox.net> Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2002 21:15:40 -0500 From: Ray Kohler User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021102 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Giorgos Keramidas Cc: "Gary W. Swearingen" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail without (real) hostname? References: <3DC9A3B4.1030303@cox.net> <3DC9C628.7080008@cox.net> <20021107020720.GA2513@gray.sea.gr> In-Reply-To: <3DC9A3B4.1030303@cox.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > 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). It's a `no servers allowed' ISP. - @ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message