From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 21 5:45:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from truemetal.org (destruction.truemetal.org [206.168.16.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5A2C237B405 for ; Fri, 21 Sep 2001 05:45:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 15287 invoked by alias); 21 Sep 2001 12:37:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO truemetal.org) (213.23.52.48) by truemetal.org with SMTP; 21 Sep 2001 12:37:23 -0000 Message-ID: <3BAB3637.2608B0C0@truemetal.org> Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 14:44:39 +0200 From: universe X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Leimbach Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Testing new email account References: <200109211215.FAA16147@smtpout.mac.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David Leimbach wrote: > > The last time someone directly involved in the mailing list server responded > to > one of these questions, I believe they said that the filtering is dropping > about 1 spam message every 3 minutes on average. > > Wow! That's a lot. Too bad some of them were probably from me trying to write to the list and not exactly understanding why I couldn't. Just because you are dropping lots of messages doesn't always mean you are dropping the right ones. > > Hell, I could make a list that drops all messages and then say I never get any spam. > > My problem writing to the list is currently solved but I had to purchase a Macintosh to do it hence the email address. :) by the way, the problem is most likely at your isp's mail server. the freebsd.org mail server doesn't allow mails from mail servers without a reverse domain name assigned. you can test that out by sending a mail from your email address that you had problems with, to your mac.com address - then inspect the mail header and see if the mail server ip address resolves to a valid domain name. -- there's the microsoft way, there's the linux way, and there's the right way. -- freebsd, the winner's choice. http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message