From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 7 14:57:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-108.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.108]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F31B837B422 for ; Mon, 7 May 2001 14:57:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 44F0466D53; Mon, 7 May 2001 14:57:40 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 14:57:40 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: the-beach Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Isn't the freebsd.org mail server too paranoid? Message-ID: <20010507145740.A68527@xor.obsecurity.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="cNdxnHkX5QqsyA0e" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from sam2539@the-beach.net on Mon, May 07, 2001 at 09:43:43AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --cNdxnHkX5QqsyA0e Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 --cNdxnHkX5QqsyA0e Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.5 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE69xpTWry0BWjoQKURAkJXAKCe8N8Q3bh6AuhZF8fyClD/q5kvTwCdEacg SBRRnPdNyrWIEpnJsp1eRpU= =e6JT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --cNdxnHkX5QqsyA0e-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message