From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 25 19:32:49 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 AAC4E37B401 for ; Fri, 25 Jul 2003 19:32:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net (avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED4CC43FBD for ; Fri, 25 Jul 2003 19:32:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cnst@rbcmail.ru) Received: from user158.net276.nc.sprint-hsd.net ([205.240.33.158] helo=rbcmail.ru) by avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 19gErW-0005eJ-00; Fri, 25 Jul 2003 19:32:47 -0700 Message-ID: <3F21E840.9050402@rbcmail.ru> Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 22:32:32 -0400 From: Constantine User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-gb, ru, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Olaf Hoyer References: <20030726033338.B60490-100000@gaff.hhhr.ision.net> In-Reply-To: <20030726033338.B60490-100000@gaff.hhhr.ision.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 02:32:50 -0000 Olaf Hoyer wrote: >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 > > The message was address@domain SMTP error from remote mailer after MAIL FROM:: host rusonyx.ru [212.24.38.14]: 550 5.7.1 Mail from 207.217.120.122 refused by blackhole site work.drbl.rusonyx.ru It is some Russian spam-list, and since the server we are talking about is Earthlinks' server in the US, nobody really cares about it... The web-site of drbl can be found at http://www.drbl.ofisp.org/eng/ Indeed, my private ips stay the same all the time, it is the public ip that changes from week to week. Cheers, Constantine.