Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 18:11:00 -0400 (EDT) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@bresler.org> To: Ulrich Windl <Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de> Cc: freebsd-test@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mail service denied Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0204171806310.1246-100000@bp6.bresler.org> In-Reply-To: <3CBD32DA.5123.25D844@localhost>
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I see. It is possible that rejecting email with a Message-ID: based upon "@localhost" is overly restrictive. I'll remove the block and on those emails. Can you recommend to the author of the software that he use the IP address, provided that it not in the private ranges? that would be a significant improvement. jmb On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Ulrich Windl wrote: > On 16 Apr 2002, at 11:25, Jonathan M. Bresler wrote: > > > > > Ulrich, > > > > your email contains a header Message-ID: which is supposed to > > uniquely identify the email from all other email messages in the > > world. this is generally accomplished by combining the date and time > > stamp, the fully qualified domain name of the sending computer and a > > counter. every computer can legitimately claim to be "localhost", so this > > is not useful. > > Jonathan, > > I asked about the author of the mail program about that. Basically the > message ID conforms. The author said the localhost is because of the > problems getting a good hostname from MS-Windows. You know there are > spaces permitted in Windows host names. I can do little about that. > Despite of that the author assured the message IDs have a very high > probability to be unique. I would call your policy over-restrictive. > > MS-Windows, is a fact of life, even if I don't like it. > > > > > please see about configuring your email software to use the fully > > qualified domain name in place of "@localhost" > > > > Message-ID: <3CBC43C1.9478.1A7CA42@localhost> > > Sorry I cannot. > > Regards, > Ulrich > > > > > jmb > > > > On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, Ulrich Windl wrote: > > > > > On 16 Apr 2002, at 5:59, Jonathan M. Bresler wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Ulrich, > > > > > > > > please send an email to freebsd-test@freebsd.org. cc: on that > > > > email jmb@bresler.org. i'll look at the email to see why we > > > > would be rejecting it. > > > > > > > > jmb > > > > > > > > > Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 10:00:24 +0200 > > > > > From: Ulrich Windl <Ulrich.Windl@RZ.Uni-Regensburg.DE> > > > > > > > > > > Postmaster, > > > > > > > > > > recently my mail bounces with a > > > > > 552 Error: content rejected > > > > > > > > > > I'm completely unsure hwat the offensive content might be. I suspect a > > > > > bug in your software! > > > > > > > > > > Regards, > > > > > Ulrich Windl > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-test" in the body of the message
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