From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 6 23:38:23 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 BD3D837B401 for ; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 23:38:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from maild.telia.com (maild.telia.com [194.22.190.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E92F543E6E for ; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 23:38:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from listsub@401.cx) Received: from 401.cx (malin.twenty4help.se [195.67.108.195]) by maild.telia.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id gA77cItq018273; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 08:38:18 +0100 (CET) X-Original-Recipient: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-ID: <3DCA182D.9020500@401.cx> Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2002 08:37:17 +0100 From: "Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ray Kohler Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail without (real) hostname? References: <3DC9A3B4.1030303@cox.net> <3DC9C628.7080008@cox.net> <20021107020720.GA2513@gray.sea.gr> <3DC9CCCC.2020200@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 Ray Kohler wrote: > Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > >> On 2002-11-06 20:47, Ray Kohler wrote: >> >> 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. > > - @ > And if you wanted to send mail from a regular mailclient, like Outlook Express, would they allow that? If they do, they must still provide you with a server that relays your email. -- R To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message