Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 20:45:59 +0200 From: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org> To: Mark Huizer <freebsd@dohd.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Isn't the freebsd.org mail server too paranoid? Message-ID: <20010507204559.J50786@d9168.upc-d.chello.nl> In-Reply-To: <20010507174951.A17495@dohd.org>; from freebsd@dohd.org on Mon, May 07, 2001 at 05:49:51PM %2B0200 References: <B71C1ECE.67BA%sam2539@the-beach.net> <20010507155319.I50786@d9168.upc-d.chello.nl> <20010507174951.A17495@dohd.org>
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On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 05:49:51PM +0200, Mark Huizer wrote: > On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 03:53:20PM +0200, Edwin Groothuis wrote: > > On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 09:43:43AM -0400, the-beach wrote: > > > 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? > > > > It's a MTA thing. Why don't you drop your email at the smtp-relay > > of your ISP? > > > Because he said that his ISP didn't have their reverse set up correctly > and called him crazy for wanting to have that changed? > Which is a bad reaction for an ISP? No, but dropping it at the ISP and getting it delivered anyway is better than getting it not delivered at all. If the policy of the ISP is "no reverse DNS lookups", then you can either say "okay, I'll live with it" or switch to a different ISP which doesn't have that kind of a policy. Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.MavEtJu.org edwin@mavetju.org | Interested in MUDs? Visit Fatal Dimensions: ------------------+ http://FatalDimensions.nl.eu.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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