David Wright wrote: > Sure, so in my case, I'd be forced to find out what my router's > hostname is so that I can quote a hostname that will resolve to the > address that I woud be posting on. Currently this appears to be > ip70-179-161-106.fv.ks.cox.net
these are not valid SMTP domain names. It might be valid FQDN, but the server on the other end is most likely to reject it. > but it changes at random times governed by I know not what. > But wait: to post from any of my machines, they all have to have > ip70-179-161-106.fv.ks.cox.net in /etc/hosts so that exim uses it > as the HELO string. This to an ISP that knows which wire I'm > connected to at their end. Best is to use dynamic DNS or DDNS service, but I am not sure if the free versions support MX records (most probably not) regards
