Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 15:29:59 -0600 From: Chip Morton <tech_info@threespace.com> To: FreeBSD Chat <chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: blocked mail Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20020224152944.01952858@threespace.com>
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At 12:57 PM 2/24/2002, Scott Mitchell wrote: >On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 12:50:11PM -0500, Chip Morton wrote: > > My e-mail to this list is not being delivered when I use my ISPs SMTP > > server. How can I find out why and what can I do about it? > >Take a look in /var/log/maillog for the offending messages; there's usually >some indication of why a message was rejected. I'm using a Windows mail client (Eudora) so I can't do this. >Alternatively, your ISPs mail server may be broken -- it's IP address may >not have any reverse DNS set up, or it may be claiming to have a hostname >that doesn't match the reverse lookup on its address, or the address might >be in a blackhole list. AFAIK, freebsd.org's mailserver rejects all of >these cases as potential spam. You might get a bounce message back >eventually after the ISP has repeatedly failed to deliver the message. >Moan at your ISP and persuade them to do things properly... It looks like reverse lookup works okay on my ISP's SMTP address. Strangely, the SMTP server that *does* work for me gives different forward and reverse names. And this SMTP server is relatively new (since the dissolution of @Home) so I can't imagine that they'd be blacklisted already. --Chip Morton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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