From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Feb 24 10:56:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mta01-svc.ntlworld.com (mta01-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A86D37B402 for ; Sun, 24 Feb 2002 10:56:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from lungfish.ntlworld.com ([80.4.0.215]) by mta01-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020224185630.RCGH9422.mta01-svc.ntlworld.com@lungfish.ntlworld.com>; Sun, 24 Feb 2002 18:56:30 +0000 Received: from tuatara.goatsucker.org (tuatara.goatsucker.org [192.168.1.6]) by lungfish.ntlworld.com (8.11.6/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g1OIuwj00601; Sun, 24 Feb 2002 18:56:58 GMT (envelope-from scott@tuatara.goatsucker.org) Received: (from scott@localhost) by tuatara.goatsucker.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g1OIvSq88951; Sun, 24 Feb 2002 18:57:28 GMT (envelope-from scott) Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 18:57:28 +0000 From: Scott Mitchell To: Chip Morton Cc: FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: blocked mail Message-ID: <20020224185728.C324@localhost> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20020224124913.018d1128@threespace.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20020224124913.018d1128@threespace.com>; from tech_info@threespace.com on Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 12:50:11PM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 12:50:11PM -0500, Chip Morton wrote: > My e-mail to this list is not being delivered when I use my ISPs SMTP > server. How can I find out why and what can I do about it? Take a look in /var/log/maillog for the offending messages; there's usually some indication of why a message was rejected. Alternatively, your ISPs mail server may be broken -- it's IP address may not have any reverse DNS set up, or it may be claiming to have a hostname that doesn't match the reverse lookup on its address, or the address might be in a blackhole list. AFAIK, freebsd.org's mailserver rejects all of these cases as potential spam. You might get a bounce message back eventually after the ISP has repeatedly failed to deliver the message. Moan at your ISP and persuade them to do things properly... HTH, Scott -- =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" scott.mitchell@mail.com | 0xAA775B8B | -- Anon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message