Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 16:52:55 +0100 From: Dick Davies <rasputnik@hellooperator.net> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Help - where to report posting problem Message-ID: <20040420155255.GF9337@lb.tenfour> In-Reply-To: <4085337D.4040300@daleco.biz> References: <20040420034619.53286.qmail@web40302.mail.yahoo.com> <408509B4.10001@potentialtech.com> <20040420133359.GA22776@lb.tenfour> <4085337D.4040300@daleco.biz>
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* Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. <kdk@daleco.biz> [0428 15:28]: > Dick Davies wrote: > > >* Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> [0430 12:30]: > > > > > >>Here's your answer. This means that the SMTP server that you > >>use as a relay is poorly configured. There is a FAQ entry: > >>http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/misc.html#FREEBSD-MAIL-BOUNCES > >You shouldn't be dumping mails based on the contents of HELO though, should > >you? > If I understand correctly, it's not the content of HELO per se, > it is the fact that the contents of HELO could not be resolved > to an IP address. Sorry, I missed the link above. If that's policy, I guess you have to live with it. > That's relatively lightweight ... for example, if you connect to > an AOL MX server (although who really cares to? :-D), you're > refused if they can't resolve HELO to a PTR record .... AOL have mail? oh, that's right, I get a few hundred a day from them, usually their Nigerian users.... :) -- Rasputin :: Jack of All Trades - Master of Nuns
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