From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 9 17:59:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A638F424A for ; Wed, 9 Feb 2000 17:59:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.36] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1) id 12IiOq-000B30-00; Thu, 10 Feb 2000 01:28:04 +0000 Received: (from ben) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.12 #1) id 12IiOq-0000g4-00; Thu, 10 Feb 2000 01:28:04 +0000 Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 01:28:04 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst To: David Banning Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: email sendmail - read this one - ignore the first! Message-ID: <20000210012804.C421@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <001601bf7359$9594be20$931e05d1@tracker> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <001601bf7359$9594be20$931e05d1@tracker> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David Banning wrote: > I sent mail using sendmail to questions@freebsd.org and got the email returned with part of the error message below. > It seems freeBSD thinks I am a junk mail sender! > It refers me to a web page http://mail-abuse.org/dul/ which says that the problem is that my > local SMTP server name setting is not the same as my ISP's. > Looking through the error message, its like like my ISP is being called tracker@localhost when it is actually > tracker@worldy.com The reason is that certain people think dialup users shouldn't be allowed to send mail direct, and that they must use their ISP's smarthost. I think this is complete bullshit, but I guess it's necessary to reduce spam a bit. Anyway, either find an ISP who can give you a static IP not in DUL, or reconfigure your MTA (i.e. sendmail) to relay all mail via your ISP's smarthost. Please don't send mail in HTML format either, thanks. -- Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message