From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Mar 6 13:48:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from web2204.mail.yahoo.com (web2204.mail.yahoo.com [128.11.68.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1F2E237B9D0 for ; Mon, 6 Mar 2000 13:47:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from charlesdillon@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 6715 invoked by uid 60001); 6 Mar 2000 21:46:49 -0000 Message-ID: <20000306214649.6714.qmail@web2204.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [206.217.87.228] by web2204.mail.yahoo.com; Mon, 06 Mar 2000 13:46:49 PST Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 13:46:49 -0800 (PST) From: "Charles F. Dillon" Subject: Re: Documentation To: Jukka Simila Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --- Jukka Simila wrote: [snip CD drive comments :: See post in this thread thread] [snip list retrieval problem] My home machine works fine via masquerading. This was delivery/post to/from a work machine via intranet firewall etc. (I haven't had much time to tinker at home so I was going to get the lists at work) It may be a mailer or some such issue, but it is irrelevant now. I tried many things, but I don't think the problem was within my control to configure, I am an end user at work. :l thank you though. > Do you happen to be behind a dial-up line? I had a problem (a year > ago) sending > messages to freebsd.org because freebsd.org uses a spam filtering > system (can't > recall the URL of the company/whatever) that checks from a database > if your IP > address is dynamic. I mean the IP address of the sending smtp > server. > > If this is the case, then you should use your ISP's > outgoing-mailserver to send > messages. They propably provide such service. > I used my own box and it's smtp to send messages, and they got > banned. When I > corrected the mailserver to be my ISP's mailserver, and voila, the > problem was > history. > > @-`--,--`--- > Jukka Simila > ===== charlesdillon@yahoo.com Charles F. Dillon __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message