From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 22 17: 9:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.nbrewer.com (sparge.nbrewer.com [208.42.68.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6489B37B4EC for ; Thu, 22 Feb 2001 17:09:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chris@nbrewer.com) Received: by mail.nbrewer.com (Postfix, from userid 1009) id 84C3416A; Thu, 22 Feb 2001 19:09:29 -0600 (CST) Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 19:09:29 -0600 From: Christopher Farley To: Peter Brezny Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problems sending mail to freebsd.org Message-ID: <20010222190928.A5606@northernbrewer.com> Mail-Followup-To: Christopher Farley , Peter Brezny , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from peter@black.purplecat.net on Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 04:41:15PM -0500 Organization: Northern Brewer, St. Paul, MN Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Peter Brezny (peter@black.purplecat.net) wrote: > I've been having problems sending mail to the freebsd.org domain. my > messages are rejected. I sent a message to the postmaster@freebsd.org a > while ago, but have yet to receive a reply. > > the details are copied below. any suggestions? I just recently had a problem sending mail to freebsd.org because it seems their mailservers are now requiring valid reverse DNS lookups, probably as an anti-spam measure. This seems a little extreme, though; my subnet is not a full octet subnet, and my ISP won't let me administer the reverse DNS zones. I had to have my ISP manually add the entries to its zone file. I have never required reverse DNS lookups on my mail server because it would reject far too many valid addresses. -- Christopher Farley www.northernbrewer.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message