On Wed 19 Sep 2007, Robert Sweetnam wrote:
> Also, you have a static IP address from eircom which the domain name
> gayleard.com points to. There is also an MX record (Mail Exchanger)
> record pointing to that address too but you seem to be blocking incoming
> connections to port 25.
Yes, I opened a pinhole at port 25 as an experiment,
and it seemed to work OK.
> Your e-mail appears to be coming from murphy.ie which is not a domain
> registered to you or your IP address. By you using murphy.ie
> inadvertently you run the risk of some of your mail falling foul of some
> spam filters as they could appear to be spoofed because murphy.ie does
> not point to your IP address.
> To save any hassle either use smtp.eircom.net as your outgoing server or
> change the domain name on your laptop and/or other computers to
> gayleard.comOK, I think the reason I didn't name my laptops
elizabeth.gayleard.com , etc,
OK, I think the reason I didn't name my laptops elizabeth.gayleard.com , etc,
was that I thought this might get mail sent directly to me which would fail
(as port 25 is closed).
But that is probably nonsense, so I've changed my internal domain
to gayleard.com .
Thanks very much for your helpful comments.
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