Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2001 00:05:33 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjclark@reflexnet.net> To: Steve Leibel <stevel@bluetuna.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sending mail from unnamed system Message-ID: <20010211000533.G62368@rfx-216-196-73-168.users.reflex> In-Reply-To: <v04210103b6abf2717b9f@[24.168.80.161]>; from stevel@bluetuna.com on Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 02:43:15AM -0500 References: <F112ZNTXiQD9Eg44PdO0000ea7e@hotmail.com> <v04210103b6abf2717b9f@[24.168.80.161]>
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On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 02:43:15AM -0500, Steve Leibel wrote: > Hello, > > I'd like to use sendmail to send out some email. My FreeBSD box is > on my local network behind a gateway machine that's connected to a > cable modem. When I send out email it bounces because the recipient > can't do a reverse-DNS lookup on my system. > > Are there any ways around this? Relay the mail through a machine that (a) will accept your mail and relay it, and (b) will be accepted as a valid relay by the ultimate desitnation. The obvious choice would be your ISP's mailservers that exist for this specific purpose. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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