On 2004-04-17, Alain penned: > I have a Debian server at home running Exim as mailer program. I am > connected via an ADSL line and do not have a permanent IP address. > > I am using my server and mailer to send result from forms submission > to several external addresses. Recently several ISP have started to > reject my email messages. > > Looking to the Exim main log, it seems two common reasons are: > > 'access denied; your IP is listed by rbl-plus.mail-abuse.org.' Or > 'Your server 8.155-136-217.adsl.skynet.be [217.136.155.8] is liste d > by the blacklist dul.dnsbl.sorbs.net. Please contact your > Dial-Up/DSL/Network ISP Provider. > (http://www.dnsbl.us.sorbs.net/DUL-FAQ .html)' > > I also have error messages specifying that my IP address is not a > fixed one and due to that the message is rejected. > > I contacted my ISP to ask him to remove the block of ip addresses from > the blacklist server but it does not seem to progress well. > > I suppose I should be able to resolve this issue by a proper Exim > configuration. As I am able to send email messages from another PC > using Outlook Express without having such a problem, I suppose it is > 'only' a question to correctly configure the mailer on my server? > > Well, I hope someone will be able to help me. >
I hear that you can use the 'smarthost' directive to tell your server to route mail through your ISP's server. -- monique -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
