On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 02:41:17AM -0600, Jacob Anawalt wrote: > David Fokkema wrote: > >Hi group, > > > >I had trouble with my ISPs mail server which was telling me that it > >wasn't going to relay mail for me. This is since friday, and still going > >on. > [snip] > > Have you called your ISP?
Nope, it was during the weekend. > Is it the server (error message) or the people that are saying they > won't relay for you? Server error message. > How are the average users of the ISP suppose to send email? Everyone (including me) is _supposed_ to use the ISP's smarthost. > Is this an issue of them not wanting you to use a domain name other than > the isp's domain for your email? I don't think so. > I think that for the most cases relaying through your ISP is a good > idea. They are online all the time to handle 5 day's of retrying for > network/dns failures. They should (hopefully) know which customer sent > which email and send it back to the right person if delivery fails and > (hopefully) limit or block outgoing virus generated mail and inform the > sender their system is infected. (*fumes* to the ISP's that send the > message on after *kindly* removing the virus...) I know other people _All_ the swen mails I got are of this type. All the ones I don't get are blocked by clamav (amavis). > have other thoughs and reasons, but I think if the ISP will do a good > job handling mail, I have _no_ issues with them firewalling > outgoing/incoming SMTP (port 25) traffic that doesn't go through the > ISP. If I need to send through another mail server, I can use a secure > tunnel or smtps. I'm back with my ISP again. They resolved their problem (apparently) and I couldn't send mail to a particular domain which told me that 'your Host has no Name'. Well, great. I _think_ it has to do with the fact that resolving my domainname to my IP address works (via DynDNS.org) but the reverse lookup returns xx.xx.xx.xx-customer.isp.nl. Nice, :-/ David -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus. Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
