Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 17:20:07 -0800 (PST) From: Bill Tillman <btillman99@yahoo.com> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How to forward old root mails to an external email address? Message-ID: <116272.11674.qm@web36504.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20110223224102.efb64d4c.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <AANLkTi=KzYd%2BHpozAGqoTL7a7w0Smvn3=QENbmjzZTeo@mail.gmail.com> <1298158643.73477.1.camel@z6000.lenzicasa> <764705.98740.qm@web36504.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20110223224102.efb64d4c.freebsd@edvax.de>
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=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A________________________________=0AFrom: Polytropon <freebsd= @edvax.de>=0ATo: Bill Tillman <btillman99@yahoo.com>=0ACc: freebsd-question= s <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>=0ASent: Wed, February 23, 2011 4:41:02 PM= =0ASubject: Re: How to forward old root mails to an external email address?= =0A=0AOn Wed, 23 Feb 2011 11:32:03 -0800 (PST), Bill Tillman <btillman99@ya= hoo.com> =0Awrote:=0A> The only problem with this is that unlike 10 years a= go, today almost all ISP's =0A=0A> block anything coming down port 25 unles= s you have an account that allows your =0A=0A> e-mail server to work. And t= hey of course charge for this. I used to enjoy my =0A> own private e-mail s= erver but these days if the ISP's don't charge you for it =0A> they block i= t.=0A=0AThis is sadly true and possibly the result of spamming=0Atraditiona= lly coming from compromised home PCs. Some=0Aproviders offer you to use the= ir MX, so if you're using=0Asendmail as MTA, let it hand its messages to yo= ur ISP's=0AMX as a realy which will then identify by a "good IP".=0A=0AThis= can be configured in your sendmail's mc as follows:=0A=0A=A0=A0=A0 define(= `SMART_HOST', `mx.your.isp.blah')=0A=0ANote that most relays will only acce= pt messages coming=0Afrom the respective ISP's net, so when you try to use= =0Ait from a different ISP, it will deny your access.=0A=0A=0A-- =0APolytro= pon=0AMagdeburg, Germany=0AHappy FreeBSD user since 4.0=0AAndra moi ennepe,= Mousa, ...=0A_______________________________________________=0Afreebsd-que= stions@freebsd.org mailing list=0Ahttp://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo= /freebsd-questions=0ATo unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-un= subscribe@freebsd.org"=0A=0AYes, but in the good ol' USA it's all about the= money. They will not let me do =0Aanything like this unless I pay more to = upgrade my service. The wierd thing is =0Athat once in a blue moon my IP ad= dress will change. Then I can send e-mail for a =0Afew hours or even days. = but soon they will start blocking me saying that I have =0Abeen identified = as a spammer. But for a fee and a monthly reoccurring one at =0Athat, they = can fix the problem for me. Not like the old days in 1998.=0A=0A=0A
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