From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 7 9:20:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from schmoo.tclme.org (schmoo.tclme.org [208.24.53.96]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5092E37B423 for ; Mon, 7 May 2001 09:20:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rgreene@tclme.org) Received: (qmail 76721 invoked by uid 1014); 7 May 2001 16:19:03 -0000 Received: from dinky.tclme.org (HELO tclme.org) (rgreene@208.24.53.107) by mail.tclme.org with SMTP; 7 May 2001 16:19:03 -0000 Message-ID: <3AF6CD8C.7BC64AA9@tclme.org> Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 11:30:04 -0500 From: Bob Greene Organization: tclme.org X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-2 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: the-beach Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Isn't the freebsd.org mail server too paranoid? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG the-beach wrote: > > It took me three mail servers (MTA) before I could get mail through to this > list. I finally noticed that reverse to me from Charter was working and used > my Sendmail that came with freeBSD, which is what I just should have tried > first, but... > > My ISP, Charter in Miami, doesn't have their reverse set correctly for their > mail servers nor does my co-location in San Francisco which is att. I > emailed them and Charter told me I was crazy and att didn't respond. > > You got to figure that very few mail servers are as paranoid as > hub.freebsd.org or else these big ISPs would be getting complaints like > crazy, right? > > There's already one layer of security in that you must subscribe, why add > another that no one else seems to care about. Is it a Postfix or a Majordomo > thing? > > stat=Sent? > I don't find it paranoid at all. In fact, on occasion, we even see spam. -- Bob Greene rgreene@TclMe.org Pull my finger for my public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message