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Date:      Mon, 2 Apr 2001 19:53:28 -0400
From:      Randall Hopper <aa8vb@nc.rr.com>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
Cc:        chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Test
Message-ID:  <20010402195328.B1874@nc.rr.com>
In-Reply-To: <200104020514.WAA10276@usr05.primenet.com>; from tlambert@primenet.com on Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 05:14:47AM %2B0000
References:  <200104011906.f31J6fE04073@stealth.dummynet> <200104020514.WAA10276@usr05.primenet.com>

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Terry Lambert:
 |> 
 |> Let's see if we can post to the FreeBSD lists again now, despite silly
 |> Postfix EHLO DNS rejection rules that don't account for internal domains...
 |
 |What's silly about requiring that it be possible to contact
 |your postmaster address before a machine is willing to take
 |responsibility for email delivery which might fail?

I realize it must be a common spammer pattern to make use of ISP that
doesn't list all their IPs in DNS (maybe they're the cheapest -- I don't
know).  But for legitimate FreeBSD users sending mail from such IPs, or
connecting from inside a masquaraded firewall where the internal DNS
hostname sendmail wants to put in the EHLO is not known to the outside
world, this adds a few tripwires to getting mail on the FreeBSD lists.

Aside from the spammer no-DNS pattern, requiring FreeBSD users to only use
IPs with names in DNS is a bit silly.  It's like requiring everyone to have
a listed phone number in the local white pages.  

It's not that big a deal to me anymore since I have a workaround.  Using
sendmail's mailertable, I now route mail through my ISP's SMTP server only
for destinations at FreeBSD.org.  No other mailing list cares.

Randall

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Randall Hopper
aa8vb@nc.rr.com

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