From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 29 5:46:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CD1237B401 for ; Sun, 29 Dec 2002 05:46:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailout3-eri1.midsouth.rr.com (mailout3-eri1.midsouth.rr.com [24.165.200.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E05443F13 for ; Sun, 29 Dec 2002 05:46:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from erik@phoenix.smluc.org) Received: from xarx.localdomain (root@cpe-066-061-038-083.midsouth.rr.com [66.61.38.83]) by mailout3-eri1.midsouth.rr.com (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id gBTDkNa07308 for ; Sun, 29 Dec 2002 07:46:23 -0600 (CST) Received: (from erik@localhost) by xarx.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.6) id gBTDkUR08025 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 29 Dec 2002 07:46:30 -0600 Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2002 07:46:30 -0600 From: Erik Greenwald To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What are the SMTP rules for sending mail to FreeBSD Message-ID: <20021229074630.A8018@xarx.midsouth.rr.com> References: <20021229002250.GC92510@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20021228210308.D12635@citusc.usc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20021228210308.D12635@citusc.usc.edu>; from kris@obsecurity.org on Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 09:03:08PM -0800 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 On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 09:03:08PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > freebsd.org does not care if your reverse DNS mapping points back to > the name you identified yourself with, it only checks that the name > the server IDs itself as when submitting email resolves to the correct > IP address. > > Many people (including me) have a working setup where reverse DNS > mappings do not give back the original hostname we ID with. > > Kris the mailing lists and user accounts are fairly forgiving, but the gnats/pr stuff doesn't seem to be... is that by design? right now I'm filling out the send-pr form, :w'ing it, then scp'ing it out to a viable mailer and hand-editing the comment stuff out and sending that... (current setup is a pair of fbsd clients behind a redcrap ipmasq (natd)... the redhat machine CAN send pr's, its sendmail smarthost/masq stuff works, I can't get the fbsd ones to do the right thing tho...) -- -Erik [http://math.smsu.edu/~erik] The opinions expressed by me are not necessarily opinions. In all probability, they are random rambling, and to be ignored. Failure to ignore may result in severe boredom or confusion. Shake well before opening. Keep Refrigerated. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message