> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Nov 6 23:00:20 2002 > Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 05:46:27 +0200 > From: Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Ray Kohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: sendmail without (real) hostname? > > On 2002-11-06 21:15, Ray Kohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > >>Funny. All ISPs that have a tiny sort of sense and respect for their > >>users that have dynamically allocated IP addresses will usually > >>provide at least one mail relay. If not for any other reason, to let > >>them send email to servers that refuse all messages from hosts whose > >>forward and reverse DNS lookups fail (a lot of the servers use this as > >>a form of antispam measure). > > > > It's a `no servers allowed' ISP. > > As long as you are not letting people relay mail through you, and only > use your ISPs mail gateway to relay your own mail to the world, you > are not a `server' as far as the ISP is concerned. Just a usual SMTP > client. They most certainly keep a mail gateway handy for their > users, since the most popular mail user agents in the Windows world > tend to fail miserably without one :) >
Well, before I used your tip, the relay would fail because the `from:' part of the envelope was invalid, but now I suppose I ought to use the `smart host' feature since it ought to work. - @ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
