From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Feb 24 13:36:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from threespace.com (server44.aitcom.net [208.234.0.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31B2E37B400 for ; Sun, 24 Feb 2002 13:36:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from vwinxp.threespace.com (ip68-11-176-217.br.no.cox.net [68.11.176.217]) by threespace.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA30116 for ; Sun, 24 Feb 2002 16:37:12 -0500 Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20020224152944.01952858@threespace.com> X-Sender: tech@threespace.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 15:29:59 -0600 To: FreeBSD Chat From: Chip Morton Subject: Re: blocked mail Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed 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 At 12:57 PM 2/24/2002, Scott Mitchell wrote: >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. I'm using a Windows mail client (Eudora) so I can't do this. >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... It looks like reverse lookup works okay on my ISP's SMTP address. Strangely, the SMTP server that *does* work for me gives different forward and reverse names. And this SMTP server is relatively new (since the dissolution of @Home) so I can't imagine that they'd be blacklisted already. --Chip Morton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message