From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 25 18:36:16 2003 Return-Path: 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 C8F6A37B401 for ; Fri, 25 Jul 2003 18:36:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gaff.hhhr.ision.net (gaff.hhhr.ision.net [195.180.9.213]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCC5A43F3F for ; Fri, 25 Jul 2003 18:36:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ohoyer@gaff.hhhr.ision.net) Received: from gaff.hhhr.ision.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gaff.hhhr.ision.net (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h6Q1aEfD060543 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sat, 26 Jul 2003 03:36:15 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ohoyer@gaff.hhhr.ision.net) Received: from localhost (ohoyer@localhost)h6Q1aDcH060540; Sat, 26 Jul 2003 03:36:14 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2003 03:36:12 +0200 (CEST) From: Olaf Hoyer To: Constantine In-Reply-To: <3F21D404.8050107@rbcmail.ru> Message-ID: <20030726033338.B60490-100000@gaff.hhhr.ision.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Host name for sendmail. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2003 01:36:17 -0000 On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, Constantine wrote: > >Ok, you should in those cases register with a freemail-service, or any > >other independent mail-provider, which gives you the possibility to: > > > >a) Identify yourself with SMTP-Auth with his server > >b) and send mails with any from: address > > > > > >In the FreeBSD-handbook there is a chapter for using sendmail with > >SMTP-Auth as a client, shall work then. > > > >Olaf > > > Okay, that seems to be too complicated to do, and my idea is not to use > any third-party smtp-servers... > > The provider is Earthlink DSL, and the problem I was having, is that > some mail-servers in Russia do not want to accept any mail from one of > the Earthlinks' smtp-servers (207.217.120.122). > > The IP-address of my modem (the address of the FreeBSD box visible to > the internet) stays constant usually within a week or so, so I believe > there should be some more neat solutions for the problem... > Hi! Well, the IP 207.217.120.122 is not in rbl Lists, as I checked it quickly, so there must be another problem. Do you have a copy of those messages, resp. the mailerdeamon? When its a private IP, then it is regardless of being several minutes or a week, because the remote system only sees the public IP of the system... Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer ohoyer@gaff.hhhr.ision.net Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese)