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Date:      Sat, 28 Dec 2002 09:23:24 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@citusc.usc.edu>
To:        Harry Tabak <htabak@quadtelecom.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: What are the SMTP rules for sending mail to FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <20021228092324.A9654@citusc.usc.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3E0DACCB.5090402@quadtelecom.com>; from htabak@quadtelecom.com on Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 08:53:15AM -0500
References:  <3E0DACCB.5090402@quadtelecom.com>

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On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 08:53:15AM -0500, Harry Tabak wrote:
> Mail sent from my main server, gatehouse.quadtelecom.com (66.45.116.138)=
=20
> gets rejected.
>    _450_Client_host_rejected:_cannot_find_your_hostname,_[66.45.116.138]
>=20
> What are the rules for sending mail!!!!!  I'm not a spammer -- I've=20
> never sent spam!!!   Your rejection is very disconcerting.

Your mail server is identifying itself as [66.45.116.138] instead of a
host with (valid) forward DNS records (hosts that do this are blocked
as a -- very effective -- anti-spam measure).  Fix your mail server to
identify itself as gatehouse.quadtelecom.com and you should get past
this filter.

Kris

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