Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 02:12:55 -0500 From: David Banning <david@skytrackercanada.com> To: mike bueide <mbueide@actcom.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Outbound mail using mutt+sendmail? Message-ID: <20011102021255.A28219@sympatico.ca> In-Reply-To: <20011101162520.A4112@actcom.net>; from mbueide@actcom.net on Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 04:25:20PM -0700 References: <20011101162520.A4112@actcom.net>
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I have run into the same problem as you have. I believe the reason these problems exist is an attempt to cub spam. The only solution I was able to go to was using my yahoo account. I set it up to allow pop access and smtp forwarding. There was two problems I ran into- 1) Yahoo would only forward the mail if my sending address was my yahoo mail address (although I could put a different reply address)- 2) I believe Yahoo (if I remember correctly) needed POP authentication before sending, so I simply had my crontab pickup my mail every 10-12 minutes. In the end, I got DSL, and I use that same supplier to forward my mail even though my IP address changes every few days. My guess is that if you had a dialup ISP which authenticated you via the IP they assigned you, and you used -their- mail server to send your mail, your problem would be solved. good luck. Let me know if you find another way around this. On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 04:25:20PM -0700, mike bueide wrote: > I'm attempting to use FreeBSD and sendmail to send mail > using the mutt UA. I do not have a registered domain. I > use a dial-up account to my provider and fetchmail to > retrieve mail from the pop server. I don't have any trouble > mailing myself or others I know on my providers network. I > can even mail to a web email account I have at Yahoo. > > Normally, with my facticious hostname (tyan.bueide.org) set, > I cannot send mail to either this list or to my workplace at > AT&T broadband. But, I have found if I set my hostname > equal to the DNS name for the ip address on the other end of > my gateway machines modem link, I can send mail. I've set > an alias up in the .muttrc so that the return address in the > mail header points to my true email address. > > Is there an easier way to go about all this? My provider > doesn't give me a static ip address, so whenever I want to > be sure the mail gets out, I continually have to: > > 1) ifconfig tun0 > 2) nslookup (the ip address given by tun0) > 3) hostname (value returned by nslookup) > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- The best book on programming for the layman is "Alice in Wonderland"; but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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