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Date:      Mon, 17 Dec 2001 13:57:40 -0600
From:      Christopher Schulte <schulte+freebsd@nospam.schulte.org>
To:        "Justin P. Michel" <justinmichel@home.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Error mailing to list!
Message-ID:  <5.1.0.14.0.20011217135515.03e1c950@pop.schulte.org>
In-Reply-To: <004401c18734$edaa1380$090ea8c0@vhds001>

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At 02:56 PM 12/17/2001 -0500, Justin P. Michel wrote:
>I am having a problem sending to this list from my home PC.  I am using 
>FreeBSD 4.4 Release, and I have a name server and sendmail set-up.  I am 
>led to believe that the name server works, as I can reach my webserver by 
>name, and I can send and receive mail to everywhere else but this list.
>
>I have been told it has something to do with a reverse pointer.

First look at your sendmail logs and see if lack of dns PTR record is 
actually the problem.

If so, contact whomever controls your address block's DNS, and kindly tell 
them to fix their sh*t. :_)

>If someone could help me out as to how I set this correctly, or where I 
>can read up on it, I would be most greatful.

Also, what IP address are you having problems with?  If you posted that it 
would have been most helpful.

>  Regards,
>
>Justin
>| FBSD - Unleash the Daemon!
>| <mailto:jpmichel@jcontinuum.ca>jpmichel@jcontinuum.ca


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