From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 7 18:23:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA00897 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 7 Jul 1998 18:23:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [139.130.136.133] (may be forged)) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA00892 for ; Tue, 7 Jul 1998 18:23:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) id KAA14820; Wed, 8 Jul 1998 10:52:39 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19980708105239.U7792@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Wed, 8 Jul 1998 10:52:39 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" , Neutrino Phantom Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: earthlink mail rejected by freebsd.org References: <19980707074453.1222.qmail@hotmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Eric J. Schwertfeger on Tue, Jul 07, 1998 at 09:07:47AM -0700 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday, 7 July 1998 at 9:07:47 -0700, Eric J. Schwertfeger wrote: > On Tue, 7 Jul 1998, Neutrino Phantom wrote: > >> I am unable to send any mail to a freebsd email address (mailing lists, >> majordomo, etc.) from my regular account with Earthlink >> (spectretouch@earthlink.net). Why? There is no connectivity problem on >> my end, because I know I can send mail to dozens of other ISP's. The >> following is the entire error email I receive. (Please send all replies >> to spectretouch@earthlink.net) > > two possibilities. Parts of Earthlink are in the RBL, but I don't think > that the freebsd mail servers use the RBL. The other is that your > earthlink dialup is rented from uunet. If you're using sendmail when you > connect to earthlink.net, you'll probably want to set a smarthost up in > your sendmail.cf to point to one of the earthlink smtp servers. It's simpler than that: FreeBSD.org blocks earthlink.net. End of story. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message