Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 12:19:58 +0100 (BST) From: William Palfreman <william@palfreman.com> To: "Ernest H. Rice" <ehr3@ehr3.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: E-mail, graphical and otherwise Message-ID: <20030511110322.J79934@ndhn.yna.cnyserzna.pbz> In-Reply-To: <200305102002.39916.ehr3@ehr3.com> References: <200305102002.39916.ehr3@ehr3.com>
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On Sat, 10 May 2003, Ernest H. Rice wrote: > For quite some time I have been able to configure sendmail to use a > smart host for relaying of my email to the outside world. I would > just point sendmail at my ISP's mail system, and away my email would > go to its intended recipient. I don't do this. I bypass my ISPs mail system entirely, by letting sendmail on my workstation get on with its job, and work out where to send the email to via the MX record. If you look through my message headers you'll see there are no hops between my cable modem and either mx1.freebsd.org or mail.ehr3.com, depending on which recipient you are. That's because I don't have a smarthost set - no need to. There was only one other bit of configuration to do, not working by default. To be able to actually send to FreeBSD mailing lists, I had to add Djntli.net to my sendmail.cf file - for some reason, mx1.freebsd.org requires senders to have an domain with an MX record to post, or else it 450s them - HELO command rejected. Anyone's domain name will do though, as long as you don't want to ever receive email from them with usernames that aren't local. I know I don't want to ever receive mail from ntli.net, so that should be just fine. Personally, I don't see how this hold back spammers much, but it does stop users of newly set up FreeBSD workstations from posting to this mailing list, although they can mail the rest of the Internet fine. Must be good training for them, having to work out the Dj directive in sendmail.cf before they can start asking questions. Forces self-reliance. Bill. -- W. Palfreman. I'm looking for a job. Read my CV at: Tel: 0771 355 0354 www.palfreman.com/william/cv-wfp2.html
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