From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 7 12: 6:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailrelay2.dialin.co.uk (mailrelay.dialin.co.uk [194.73.252.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 344A137B43C for ; Mon, 7 May 2001 12:06:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sjmudd@pobox.com) Received: from phoenix.ea4els.ampr.org (unknown [217.126.145.95]) by mailrelay2.dialin.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5C0F3FF2F for ; Mon, 7 May 2001 20:06:16 +0100 (GMT/BST) Received: from unicorn.ea4els.ampr.org (unicorn.ea4els.ampr.org [44.133.228.2]) by phoenix.ea4els.ampr.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C168AC40E for ; Mon, 7 May 2001 21:08:10 +0200 (CEST) Received: by unicorn.ea4els.ampr.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id BF5F23184; Mon, 7 May 2001 21:05:43 +0200 (CEST) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Isn't the freebsd.org mail server too paranoid? References: From: Simon J Mudd Date: 07 May 2001 21:05:43 +0200 In-Reply-To: sam2539@the-beach.net's message of "7 May 2001 15:46:04 +0200" Message-ID: <8666fdt1x4.fsf@unicorn.ea4els.ampr.org> Lines: 21 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.6 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG sam2539@the-beach.net (the-beach) writes: > 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 postfix thing, which is _optionally_ enabled. It is a very good way of avoiding the reception of spam, which I guess hub.freebsd.org wants to do. Normally ips without reverse lookups correspond to sites which aren't setup properly, and these are often the source of spam. It's caught me and it can be frustrating, but honestly the ISP should know better. And you can always change ISP (even if that is a pain). It's a shame a lot of ISPs don't know how to setup their mail servers properly. Simon -- Simon J Mudd, Madrid SPAIN Tel: +34-91-408 4878 email: sjmudd@pobox.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message