On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 09:53:37AM -0700, Jonathan Markevich wrote: > > --- Chris Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 04:48:16AM -0700, Jonathan Markevich wrote: > > > > > > As for Freewwweb, STAY AWAY. They have no clue how to run a SMTP > > > server. I get ALL of my mail bounced back to me because they > > don't > > > have a record of valid dial-up IP assignments. (e.g. This > > message was > > > cut and pasted from a bounce and re-composed online.) > > > > Indeed. The way I work it is to have a real ISP which doesn't drop > > packets going to port 25 and have a real mail account somewhere > > other than > > freewwweb. Then I use my freewwweb account(s) for general surfing > > and > > my real ISP for sending mail. Since my real ISP is free for 12 > > hours a > > month, I basically have free dial-up internet service with all the > > amenities. Good luck. > > I use exim, and it's aggravatingly transparent. If I did dial up > another provider, it would trand sieze the opportunity to mail > anythng in the queue and, of course, get bounced as relaying.
I use Freewwweb and my mail didn't get bounced, but the smtp connections timed out. I had to disable MTU path discovery with sysctl as per the postfix documentation. Apparently there is a misconfigured server somewhere between me and them. I told them about it and got no reply. I have not yet tried re-enabling MTU path discovery to see if they did anything. BTW, the postfix docs said that disabling MTU path discovery was a workaround (a misconfigured server is the real problem) and that by disabling it, all would suffer. How would "all" "suffer"? > > It's tempting me to switch to another MTA, I tell ya. > > Everyone on the debian-user list should send Freewwweb a mail message > saying they heard how awful their support is, and they are another > lost customer. Heh heh... distributed spamming... <slap on back of > hand> > > I need to find one of those 12 hour freebie accounts. > -- Pat Mahoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> linux: the choice of a GNU generation ([EMAIL PROTECTED] put this on Tshirts in '93)
