On Sun, 16 Dec 2001 15:46:05 +0200, Nadav Har'El <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As for the question the original poster had: when you log in, you have an > ISP, so use its SMTP server as your mail relay. For example, say you log > in using Barak. Then use mail.barak.net.il as your mail relay. It's not > rocket science!! And please don't listen to the people who are telling you > to run an SMTP server on your own personal computer. This solution is wrong > on so many levels (spam reduction is only one of them)...
I don't agree with you here. When we connected our systems to the Internet I used our ISP (Internet Zahav) mail relay for sending mail. After sometime (when more users were connected to the ISP) some of my mails were blocked because of their origin (Internet Zahav mail). I changed my sendmail configuration NOT to use relay (actually, only 2 systems here which have their incoming port 25 open on the firewall are connected directly, the other 10 are relaying through one of them). I configured the sendmail of a friend's machine (Linux, ADSL, no fixed IP, he is using NO-IP dynamic DNS) to work on it's own (no relaying) and it works fine. My advice is: if your computer is connected almost all the time, you don't need relay and you better off without it. I think that the reported problem of not being able to post from "dial-up" connection has to do with lacking of reverse DNS (i.e. the IP used has no name assigned to it). This is a problem with some of the ISPs (e.g. Kavey-Zahav) and not others (e.g. Netvision) which assign names to all their IPs. Ehud. -- Ehud Karni Tel: +972-3-7966-561 /"\ Mivtach - Simon Fax: +972-3-7966-667 \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign Insurance agencies (USA) voice mail and X Against HTML Mail http://www.mvs.co.il FAX: 1-815-5509341 / \ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Better Safe Than Sorry ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
