Sorry, this was supposed to be a reply to personal reply, but the
protection described works too well. Even mail sent by telnetting to
my provider gets rejected.
Again, sorry if this is off topic at this list (where should it be on
topic?) Could too be of interest to some I suspect.
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Dear Kevin,
Thank you very much for your reply. It leaves an impression, however,
that I am now doomed to manually hack the qf's.
> Unless you have a valid registered domain, you should not be using
> a domain. If you are connecting via an ISP, you might ask to use
> their valid domain for use as a valid domain. Something like:
>
> oleg.ips_domain
So I should not use my "official domain" (I felt it's a bad idea,
then, again, I am not that different from other users - does
_everyone_ on a dynamic IP have to ask for a name in the domain ?),
and live with this "Domain must resolve" rejects?
Or might there be some sort of "local" solution, some
"masquerading" for outcoming mail? (Uhm, that would defeat your
spam filter... :( )
> 2. (off-topic) What is the point of this domain checking?
> Spam prevention. If you are sending spam from a known site, a complaint
> can be filed with that service abou the spam you sent. If you use
> an invalid domain to begin with, we can assume you are not a real
> mail message and disregard it.
Disregards my mails automatically... rendering my box a game machine
(should I now through out my Linux? OK, emacs is still usable... almost).
> We don't allow any email from hosts with invalid or improperly defined
> hostnames. We get a lot less spam that way...
>
> If you used whitehouse.gov it would fail here as well as we would
> resolve that hostname and see that you are actually using an IP of
> someone else. So that wont work here either...
OK, you do, most other domain-checkers don't...
Do you really need to check domainname if you already have the
sender's IP? Something is not quite right here, it just forces me (and,
I would guess, quite a few guys like me) to use unhealthy hacking or
send mail to this kind of addresses telnetting to the providers...
reduces the value of home Linux boxes a lot. A big problem for one my friend
who sends out announces for a conference (1500 addresses, and growing, about
20% return "must resolve"...) I installed RedHat for him a while ago, he was
willing to learn, now it all appears pretty useless to him.
Best wishes and thank you again,
Oleg
(now switching to root to edit the qf file... Life is not pretty as it
used to be %_% )
(Oh, this is even worse, ypu are really well protected from me... Back
to the plain "mail" interface I can get at the provider - user available
programs are minimal there. x_x
And many people don't even have shell accounts, so I guess you may never
see anything at all from them).
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