From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 28 9:23:36 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 1B18637B401 for ; Sat, 28 Dec 2002 09:23:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from citusc.usc.edu (citusc.usc.edu [128.125.38.123]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACF6743ED4 for ; Sat, 28 Dec 2002 09:23:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@citusc.usc.edu) Received: (from kris@localhost) by citusc.usc.edu (8.11.6/8.11.2) id gBSHNOI09678; Sat, 28 Dec 2002 09:23:24 -0800 Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2002 09:23:24 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: Harry Tabak Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What are the SMTP rules for sending mail to FreeBSD Message-ID: <20021228092324.A9654@citusc.usc.edu> References: <3E0DACCB.5090402@quadtelecom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="KsGdsel6WgEHnImy" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <3E0DACCB.5090402@quadtelecom.com>; from htabak@quadtelecom.com on Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 08:53:15AM -0500 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 --KsGdsel6WgEHnImy Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 --KsGdsel6WgEHnImy Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE+Dd4MWry0BWjoQKURAp9bAKCTrVst4q2OiANvqcJkifY4EeQWwQCcDHaK D2ynzMwQ+sbTCDOgDddcTWM= =DFpc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --KsGdsel6WgEHnImy-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message