Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2011 21:09:18 -0400 From: Daniel Staal <DStaal@usa.net> To: cjr@cruwe.de, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: unable to reach bsd-lists via mail Message-ID: <03017E79B6B5A7016CDBEBD6@mac-pro.magehandbook.com> In-Reply-To: <20110619002902.694eb6d0@dijkstra> References: <20110618175357.29f06cb1@dijkstra> <201106181557.09148.DStaal@usa.net> <20110619002902.694eb6d0@dijkstra>
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--As of June 19, 2011 12:29:02 AM +0200, Christopher J. Ruwe is alleged to have said: > (The server is a rented virtual machine.) Am I right that I need to set > the rDNS of 188.40.164.98 to mail.cruwe.de to make the freebsd.org > servers accept my mail or that, should I set the rDNS to cruwe.de, I > should make the mailer on mail.cruwe.de identify itself as cruwe.de > instead of mail.cruwe.de? > > Anyway, thank you very much for your help, --As for the rest, it is mine. In postfix, the relevant setting is 'myhostname' in main.cf for the hostname. >From my experience, it doesn't have to match the rDNS. It needs to match the MX record. But, you should be able to see what they are saying as a rejection notice from your logs. Daniel T. Staal --------------------------------------------------------------- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use the contents for non-commercial purposes. This copyright will expire 5 years after the author's death, or in 30 years, whichever is longer, unless such a period is in excess of local copyright law. ---------------------------------------------------------------
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