Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 14:21:14 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Chip Morton <tech_info@threespace.com> Cc: FreeBSD Chat <chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: blocked mail Message-ID: <3C79675A.C4E475C0@mindspring.com> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20020224152944.01952858@threespace.com>
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Chip Morton wrote: > 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. Your ISP will send you an error message in response to the delivery failure (a DSN -- Delivery Status Notification) from "mailer-daemon", or from "<>". If they filter these messages so you never see the error message (which it sounds like they do), then your ISP is in violation of RFC 821 and RFC 1123 for rejecting "<>", or is in the habit of discarding DSN's because it condones SPAM. Otherwise, your error message would probably be useful here... > 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. Generally, you'll get difference forward and reverse with different internal and external DNS names. Looking from outside, though, you'll consistently get the external name, so it's not a problem. Just an idea... how about using the server that works? 8-). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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