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Date:      Mon, 7 May 2001 14:57:40 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        the-beach <sam2539@the-beach.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Isn't the freebsd.org mail server too paranoid?
Message-ID:  <20010507145740.A68527@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <B71C1ECE.67BA%sam2539@the-beach.net>; from sam2539@the-beach.net on Mon, May 07, 2001 at 09:43:43AM -0400
References:  <B71C1ECE.67BA%sam2539@the-beach.net>

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On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 09:43:43AM -0400, the-beach wrote:
> It took me three mail servers (MTA) before I could get mail through to th=
is
> list. I finally noticed that reverse to me from Charter was working and u=
sed
> my Sendmail that came with freeBSD, which is what I just should have tried
> first, but...
>=20
> My ISP, Charter in Miami, doesn't have their reverse set correctly for th=
eir
> 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.
>=20
> 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?
>=20
> 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 Majord=
omo
> thing?

You wouldn't believe how much spam hub bounces because of this
rule..it's VERY MUCH needed.

Kris

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