On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 16:22, Ed Wilts wrote: > On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 01:30:07PM -0700, Daniel Goldin wrote:
> When you've done this, you've basically told sendmail to redirect all > its e-mail to EL's SMTP server. From there, it will be delivered to its > final destination. This isn't so bad - any redeliveries happen > automatically after they've left your system. I've run into cases > myself where braindead mailers have rejected e-mail coming from my > system, but when I switched to using a smart host, those issues went > away. Not only braindead servers do that but actually ones that have been configfured to reject any mail that does not come from a mailserver that can have it's ipaddress looked up. Chuck has the moongroup servers setup that way and I think it is a drag, but I understand. Chuch says that he drop about 90% of spam when he did that. Personally, I like being able to look in my maillog and see the messages delivered to mailserver.domain.com successfully or what ever it says. I actually have had one instance when a client said they did not recieve an email and I looked it up and told him huh,. it was delvered at 10:53 on tuesday to your mailserver, you should talk to your IT guys. Lo and behold he found the message where he had "stashed" it. Of course that only happened once out of the hundreds of emails we send out of here per day but boy did I feel impowered with the infromation that my isp's (SBC) mailserver did not loose it. Information is power, More power to the people and all that jive. Bret -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
