From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Nov 28 04:51:32 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id EAA11210 for chat-outgoing; Fri, 28 Nov 1997 04:51:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ren.dtir.qld.gov.au (firewall-user@ns.dtir.qld.gov.au [203.108.138.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id EAA11203; Fri, 28 Nov 1997 04:51:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from syssgm@dtir.qld.gov.au) Received: by ren.dtir.qld.gov.au; id WAA04954; Fri, 28 Nov 1997 22:51:45 +1000 (EST) Received: from ogre.dtir.qld.gov.au(167.123.8.3) by ren.dtir.qld.gov.au via smap (3.2) id xma004952; Fri, 28 Nov 97 22:51:25 +1000 Received: from troll.dtir.qld.gov.au (troll.dtir.qld.gov.au [167.123.8.1]) by ogre.dtir.qld.gov.au (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA28958; Fri, 28 Nov 1997 22:51:20 +1000 (EST) Received: from localhost (syssgm@localhost) by troll.dtir.qld.gov.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA09031; Fri, 28 Nov 1997 22:51:17 +1000 (EST) Message-Id: <199711281251.WAA09031@troll.dtir.qld.gov.au> X-Authentication-Warning: troll.dtir.qld.gov.au: syssgm@localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, syssgm@dtir.qld.gov.au Subject: Re: reverse DNS not all bad References: <199711281239.EAA10581@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <199711281239.EAA10581@hub.freebsd.org> from "Jonathan M. Bresler" at "Fri, 28 Nov 1997 04:39:26 -0800" Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 22:51:16 +1000 From: Stephen McKay Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Friday, 28th November 1997, "Jonathan M. Bresler" wrote: > are you still getting rejected? > > the '550 Access denied' was a different problem, which has been > resolved. No, it's fine now. I suspected it was a global cockup because of the bald and uninformative error message. > sadly it took about 24 hours to get fixed. had people > sent me mail earlier i could have fixed it earlier. > > postmaster@freebsd.org I did my best, but it rejected all my traffic. It refused me even the "help" command. My ssh keys were at home, so I had to give up. It's really quite tricky to get around this sort of problem. As anti-spam measures are taken up by people with less and less experience I expect more of this. Oops, that looks like a sly dig. You know what I mean, I hope. Stephen.